CMS interpretive guidelines one year later: Is your facility in compliance with all the changes?
Briefings on Infection Control, December 1, 2008
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It’s been one year since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released changes to its interpretive guidelines for infection prevention and control, adding new requirements related to MDROs, bioterrorism, ambulatory care, and leadership.
These changes were largely designed to bring the guidelines into step with current IC practice standards, says Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, director of hospital risk management at OHIC Insurance Company, The Doctor’s Company, in Columbus, OH. Prior to the update, the guidelines were outdated, Dill Calloway says.
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