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Analysis says CMS rule will significantly affect nursing

Quality Improvement Monitor, November 16, 2007

The CMS rule that will halt reimbursement to hospitals for eight preventable conditions will have a significant impact on nurses, according to a study by George Washington University.

Beginning with October 1, 2008 discharges, Medicare will no longer reimburse hospitals if patients under their care suffer from the following conditions:

  • Serious preventable event -- object left in surgery
  • Serious preventable event -- air embolism
  • Serious preventable event -- blood incompatibility
  • Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
  • Pressure ulcers
  • Vascular catheter-associated infection
  • Surgical site infection -- mediastinitis after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
  • Patient falls

    "Now, more than ever, hospital leaders need to invest in high-quality nursing care and provide resources to support nurses' ongoing contribution to patient safety and health care quality," said Ellen M. Dawson, PhD, ANP, chair of the George Washington University's Department of Nursing Education, said in a press release on the Robert Wood Johnson Web site. "This rule will have a big effect on how nurses do their jobs."

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