A few weeks ago, the good folks at CMS revised their take on how they were going to be surveying organizations relative to their handling of COVID-19 as a specific focus. Much as the adoption of emerging infectious diseases (EID) preparedness has resulted in a broadening of expectations, the...
I think we’ve established for the foreseeable future that the regulatory survey of the physical environment—and, by extension, how one prepares for that survey—is very much a...
Another item that I see referenced in surveys with increasing frequency are those relating to organization’s not being able to clearly demonstrate that they are managing their whatevers in accordance with the manufacturers’ instructions for use (IFUs). While I do think there is a little bit of...
I suspect that this is going to be a rather brief entry (but, if I’m honest, I usually think that and then…) as it is (yet another!) entry in the “the goal of the survey...
In what has become one of the constants of the final quarter of the calendar year, our friends at CMS once again take aim at the disparities between their...
