Catalog Number : ngd1780
Title : CMS Proposed Changes in 2012
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 1-25-2012
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

October 24, 2011, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published proposed changes for hospitals. This is one of the major revisions in more than two decades. They were written to comply with the President’s mandate to reduce the regulatory burden placed on hospitals. The Obama administration and CMS believes this will save billions of dollars for the healthcare system. 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

• Discuss that CMS has proposed many changes to the Hospital Conditions of Participation manual
• Describe that CMS is proposing changes to the Verbal Order requirement to eliminate the 48 hour requirement, which will be affected by state specific laws
• Recall that CMS would make changes to the Restraint and Seclusion Standards
• Discuss that CMS would change the requirement to have a Single Director of Outpatient Services

• Introduction
• History of changes in 2011
• 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
• Three 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 History and physicals

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.