Webinar Overview:

Every hospital that accepts payment for Medicare and Medicaid patients must comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs). The Interpretive Guidelines serve as the basis for determining hospital compliance. This informative seminar covers the changes to the Interpretive Guidelines, including the final guidelines that were issued October 17, 2008. In addition, it covers the Joint Commission changes that were issued based on the CMS hospital CoPs. The curriculum covers the impact of the changes on such areas as patient rights, quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI), medical staff, nursing services, medical records, pharmaceutical services, utilization review (UR), discharge planning, organ procurement, surgical, anesthesia, radiological and laboratory services, dietetic, nuclear medicine, emergency, rehabilitation, and respiratory services.

Target Audience:

• Chief Nursing Officers
• Nurse Managers/ Supervisors
• Compliance Officers
• Joint Commission Coordinators
• Legal Counsel
• Quality Improvement
• Risk Managers
• Staff Nurses
• Nurse Educators
• Patient Safety Committees
• Outpatient Directors
• Directors of Rehabilitation
• Dieticians
• Anesthesia and Surgery Staff
• Respiratory Therapy Directors

Webinar Objectives:

• Describe the CMS’ survey process and the documents that must be produced during a survey
• Recall the CMS’ patient rights standards, including the grievance requirements
• Discuss the seven educational requirements including the requirement to do annual restraint and seclusion training
• Describe how hospitals need to evaluate contracted services to ensure good quality of care
• Recall that CMS has 50 pages of restraint standards
• Describe the proposed changes to visitation and telemedicine

Nursing Contact Hours/Attendance Certificates:

This course has been approved for 2.4 Iowa Nursing Contact Hoursor 2 Attendance Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.