Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Just in time for the holidays, CMS is offering the gift of a newly revised State Operations Manual (SOM), one of the first significant overhauls...Read More »

As of January 1, CMS eliminated the paper version of the form to report patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion. Read More »

Selected posters will be exhibited at the Emergency Management Standards Base Camp on April 21, and at the...Read More »

The Joint Commission’s (TJC) newest engineering director, Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, told hospital leadership that life...Read More »

Obstetric hemorrhage and severe hypertension are the two focus areas of the requirements that will come online in July 2020Read More »

10% of healthcare workers in the U.S. are abusing drugs of some sort.Read More »

 The accreditor noted concerns about the very high rate of suicides in rural communities that critical access hospitals serve.Read More »

Healthcare compliance changed quite a bit in the last decade. For one thing, fire safety moved into the current millennium with the adoption of...Read More »

After four years, a proposed rule, and a deadline extension, CMS has finalized the conditions home health agencies must meet through the discharge...Read More »

HFAP provided a handy list of what CoPs were to change, and stated that “all regulations are effective November 29, 2019 with the exceptions of...Read More »