Accreditation Resource Center
- Take a Deep Breath: New CMS Anesthesia Regulations
This four-part series outlines compliance challenges associated with the new CMS CoPs for Anesthesia Services, and offers solutions to help hospitals assess vulnerabilities in anesthesia and sedation activities.
- “Guide to CMS Compliance,” from Journal of Healthcare Management by Ruth Elzer, Practice Leader for Accreditation and Compliance Services
- Ruth Elzer, RN, MS, spoke to Medicaid Compliance News about responding to hospital Immediate Jeopardy citations and preparing for survey by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2010. View these articles for practical advice about responding to negative survey results and what to expect from CMS in the coming year.
- “The Truth about Crocs,” by Ruth Elzer, Practice Leader for Accreditation and Compliance Services, discusses the regulatory limitations associated with this popular footwear.
- “DATA: Beyond SBAR for Hand-off Communication,” by Ruth Elzer, presents a simplified method for hand-off communications that can be used in conjunction with SBAR. It also discusses the following tools offered free from Compass Group.
- “When Two Identifiers are Not Compliant,” by Ruth Elzer, discusses a reliable technique for meeting the expectations of the National Patient Safety Goal regarding patient identification.
- “Restraints: To Report or Not to Report,” by Ruth Elzer, clarifies the CMS expectations regarding the reporting of restrain-related deaths.
- “Drinking at the Desk: The Final Answer,” by Ruth Elzer, discusses the regulatory implications of eating and drinking in clinical settings. It also offers helpful hints for delineating acceptable spaces for food and drink.
- “Beyond Broselow: Don’t Get Caught With Noncompliant Carts,” by Ruth Elzer, discusses some of the recent regulatory changes related to Broselow Pediatric Emergency Tapes.
- “Immediate Jeopardy: Immediate Threat to Accreditation Status,” by Ruth Elzer, explores the relationship between CMS’s Immediate Jeopardy and TJC’s Immediate Threat to Life, and enumerates some of the methods that organizations can use to avoid these findings.
- “Tick, Tock!,” by Ruth Elzer, Practice Leader for Accreditation and Compliance Services, discusses expectations for medication administration.
- “Verbal Orders and CMS: The Final Word,” by Ruth Elzer, Practice Leader for Accreditation and Compliance Services, clarifies the CMS expectations surrounding verbal orders.
- “A JAYCO Trap: Privileging by Proxy,” by Ruth Elzer, Practice Leader for Accreditation and Compliance Services, discusses the differences between CMS and TJC requirements regarding privileging.
- “Labels: Friend or Foe,” by Ruth Elzer discusses medication labeling standards and the pitfalls of pre-printed labels.
- “Your Turn to Be a Surveyor,”by Ruth Elzer illuminates some of the new challenges that face hospitals planning to be surveyed as part of health systems.
- “To Flush or Not to Flush: Drug Patch Disposal” by Ruth Elzer addresses some of the regulatory uncertainty surrounding drug patch disposal and provides helpful tips for writing policies for this issue.
- “Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Tracing” by Ruth Elzer offers tips for educating tracer teams on ever-evolving regulatory standards.
- “Haunted by Hospital-Acquired Conditions” by Ruth Elzer discusses fun and educational options for increasing the awareness of hospital-acquired conditions and their causes.
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