Catalog Number : ncd1817
Title : The CMS CoPs: The Final Regulations for Hospitals
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 8-28-2012
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published over two dozen changes for hospitals, becoming effective July 16, 2012. CMS states that these will save healthcare providers over 5 billion dollars in five years. This is touted to help free up resources that could be used for taking care of patients.

Of course, hospitals would need to rewrite many of their policies and procedures, medical staff by-laws, and other documents to ensure compliance. Staff would need to be educated on the new requirements so changes could be made to ensure compliance with the new proposed changes.

Target Audience: 

This program is designed for anyone who is involved in understanding and complying with both the CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation and the Joint Commission standards including:

• Compliance Officers
• Regulatory Compliance
• Director Joint Commission Coordinator
• Quality Improvement Staff
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Chief Operating Officer
• Senior Leadership Team
• Patient Safety Officer
• Nurse Educator
• Nursing Department Managers and Directors
• Health Information Management Director and Staff
• Pharmacist
• Chief Medical Officer
• Nurse Managers
• Nurses
• Policy and Procedure Committee
• Medical Staff Coordinator
• Risk Managers
• Hospital Legal Counsel
• Staff Nurses

Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss that CMS has many changes to the Hospital Conditions of Participation manual
• Describe the changes to verbal orders that eliminate the 48 hour requirement
• Describe how the CMS changes to the verbal order requirements will be affected by a state specific law
• Recall the changes to the restraint and seclusion standards
• Discuss the removal of the requirement to have a single director of outpatient services

A Few of the Topics that will be covered:

• Introduction
• History of recent changes
• Important document on three worksheets for hospitals
• Cost savings to hospitals
• President executive order
• Effect on Joint Commission standards and other accreditation agency standards like DNV and AOA
• Verbal orders and 48 hours
• Restraint and seclusion and reports of death
• Outpatient under a single director
• One board requirement eliminated in hospital systems
• Physician on board
• Medical staff section changes
• Drugs and biologicals
• Self administration of drugs
• Preprinted orders, standing orders and protocols
• Mandatory education for nurses on IV medication and blood
• Nursing plan of care
• Infection control log
• History and physicals clarification
• Transplant center blood type verification
• Definition of CNS for CAH
• Life safety code
• CAH hospitals direct services or contracts

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.