More than four months into the COVID-19 lockdown, we’re seeing some states gradually open up and others frantically put restrictions back in place because of new surges in coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, healthcare conferences of all kinds have been cancelled or postponed, or in some cases, turned...
Now that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has again renewed the official declaration of a public health emergency (PHE) related to the 2019 novel coronavirus, hospitals and other providers can continue to take advantage of CMS blanket 1135 waivers.
Here are areas where your facility can work to ease patients’ safety concerns during the pandemic. They come from Colleen McCrory, MBA, FACHE, a coach in Huron’s Studer Group advisory firm with 19 years of experience in healthcare...
Physicians and other healthcare providers will now be paid to counsel patients about the importance of self-isolation after testing for COVID-19, even before test results are known, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced...
As of this writing, the novel 2019 coronavirus has infected over 4.6 million Americans and killed over 155,000. Unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression, and experts predict mass evictions as financial aid measures run out.
Expect The Joint Commission (TJC) to get tougher on some areas of survey, particularly with the physical environment and off-campus facilities, and to change the level of detail in its daily briefing about what surveyors are finding.
In mid-July, CMS confirmed that TJC—one of the nation’s...
But first (as promised), a word about fire drills (there will be more, maybe next week, depends on what comes flying over the transom…): About a month ago...
The cost of poor medication adherence is tremendous—nearly $177 billion each year in direct and indirect healthcare costs—but the cost of nonadherence during the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to be much higher. Medication nonadherence can drive up otherwise avoidable hospital admissions,...
