Albert Tomchaney, MD, became the first chief medical officer of the Indiana-based Franciscan Alliance, which operates as Franciscan Health, in 2008. He has managed the physician practices for a time and overseen hospital operations such as pharmacy and care management. But throughout, and...
CMS issued six new survey tags as well as other updates to its online manual of interpretive guidelines for Conditions of Participation (COP) on infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship programs...
The CDC has updated its guidance on infection control of monkeypox for healthcare settings, reminding providers that any case suspected of being of the more deadly Congo Basin clade requires more...
More than 5,000 nurses have signed up for a new free nurse burnout prevention program in which the American Nurses Association (ANA) is encouraging its members to participate. ANA has partnered with SE Healthcare for the Burnout Prevention Enrichment CenterTM...
CMS has published a proposed list of 23 Conditions of Participation for the new rural emergency hospital provider type. The same Federal Register posting on Thursday, June 30, also included revisions to CoP for critical...
CMS has updated survey guidance on minimum health and safety standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities, including expectations for infection control and how patients are admitted, transfered and discharged to a hospital.
A survey of patient and provider attitudes toward telehealth find that both see the virtual visit as a complementary to the in-person visit, but not as a replacement. And they both certainly know when a virtual visit isn’t working.
Now that hospitals and other healthcare providers have had time to meet the CMS staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements, CMS is easing up on verification.
