Answers to your FAQs on the CoP
Briefings on The Joint Commission, April 1, 2007
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Editor's note: Sue Dill-Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, director of hospital risk management for OHIC Insurance Company in Columbus, OH, is the CMS Corner lead contributor. Submit a topic idea to her by contacting BOJ editor Matt Phillion at mphillion@hcpro.com. This month, Dill-Calloway answers two questions she received about the CMS Conditions of Participation (CoP) during an all-day inservice.
Q: Regarding the new CMS restraint and seclusion standards, do you have to report deaths to CMS even if the patient's death is not due to the restraint?
A: CMS published changes to the restraint and seclusion standard on December 8, 2006, in the Federal Register. (Federal Register Vol. 71, No. 236, p.71377- 71428.)
The hospital must report each death to CMS that occurs while a patient is in restraints or seclusion and within 24 hours after the patient has been removed from restraint and seclusion, regardless of whether the death was due to a restraint. For example, say a terminal patient is expected to die. If the patient had restraints on or was restrained within 24 hours of death, you would need to report that.
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