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HEALTHCARE TRAINING WEEKLY
Friday, January 10, 2003
Volume 2, Number 2

Healthcare Training Weekly, January 28, 2003

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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. The surveyors are coming! The surveyors are coming!
2. HIPAA heats up this winter
3. CDC to build one-stop training center
4. Pay-per-view article: Is bathing residents a wash-out at your facility?

1. THE SURVEYORS ARE COMING! THE SURVEYORS ARE COMING!

Survey coordinators, arm yourselves! The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) last month outlined its survey focus areas for 2003 in the ambulatory, long-term, and behavioral care settings. A common theme? Training, of course! JCAHO surveyors will be looking to see whether your workers understand key procedures in each of these areas. Here's how the agency's key concerns break out by setting:

Ambulatory care
--Make sure appropriate verification of competency, training, and experience is conducted before granting privileges, per JCAHO standard HR.7.2.1
(from the Ambulatory Care Advisor, issue 3, 2002)

Behavioral health care
--One of the JCAHO's proposed behavioral health care staffing effectiveness indicators for 2003 is "number of staff training/education hours per staff."
(from BHC Accreditation NEWS, issue 3, 2002)

Long-term care
--Several organizations have reduced problems with residents falling by using the JCAHO's staffing effectiveness model. One institution reduced its fall rates when it hired a nurse assistant with recreation training.
(from LTC Update, issue 3, 2002)

You can read all of the publications cited above by going to http://www.jcaho.org/index.htm and looking under "Latest Newsletters."

In addition, the latest issue of the JCAHO's "Perspectives on Patient Safety" is a special report on the agency's 2003 National Patient Safety Goals. The publication covers a wide range of safety issues, including abbreviations: "Train staff during performance improvement committee meetings on how to avoid using dangerous abbreviations," the special report says.

You can download this issue at http://www.jcrinc.com/subscribers/patientsafety.asp?durki=154.

2. HIPAA HEATS UP THIS WINTER

Medicaid participants and rural health care providers need lots of guidance in implementing federal standards regarding the privacy and security of medical records. They should find plenty of help over the next few weeks: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have scheduled two conferences, one at the end of this month and another in early February, targeted toward the needs of these two provider groups.

Rural caregivers in the Midwest can get a leg up on complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) with the agency's second regional HIPAA training program. CMS will hold the free "Health Care Provider HIPAA Readiness Workshop" January 23, 2003, at the Holiday Inn Express in North Platte, NE. Go to http://www.wedi.org/snip/public/articles/index%7E0.htm to register.

Next month, CMS will offer HIPAA training and education for Medicaid participants at its 2003 National Medicaid HIPAA & MMIS Conference in New Orleans, from February 9-13. Session titles include: "Security awareness and training: Who needs to know and what do they need to know?" and "Post-HIPAA Training strategies: Privacy training strategies after February 14, 2003." Go to http://www.dhh.state.la.us/HIPAA/indexbody2.htm to register.

3. CDC TO BUILD ONE-STOP TRAINING CENTER

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last month said they have broken ground on their Scientific Communications Center, which will include studios to train public health professionals, offer distance learning, and provide a museum of public health. The $62.5 million center will be completed in early 2005, the CDC said. It will include production studios capable of broadcasting satellite and Internet training to state and local health agencies and health care providers; student-centered auditoria and classrooms; a learning resource center and public health library; and a public health museum of public health and CDC history. Go to http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r021218.htm for more information.

The preceding brief comes from Nutrition Week, an HCPro newsletter. For ordering information, call our Customer Service department at 800/650-6787, or go to http://www.hcpro.com/onlinepubs/article.cfm?article=25470
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4. PAY-PER-VIEW ARTICLE
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LONG-TERM CARE

'IS BATHING RESIDENTS A WASH-OUT AT YOUR FACILITY? '

There are many new ways to bathe nursing home residents who routinely resist this activity of daily living. That said, you should implement new methods slowly, says Joanne Rader, MN, RN, FAAN, who cowrote the book "Bathing Without a Battle: Personal Care for Persons with Dementia." Once you've trained workers on new methods, test their effectiveness on residents who can't tolerate traditional bathing. Choose one unit for testing. Begin with the easier methods first, such as the towel bath, and monitor how well each resident responds. After you sort that out, address bigger system issues, Rader says. By then, you will have developed bathing experts, who can train your new staff on the alternative ways.

To read the full story, go to http://www.hcpro.com/onlinepubs/article.cfm?article=25469 The cost is $10. Subscribers to the online version of Briefings on Long-Term Care Regulations (BLTCR) have free access to this article. Subscribers to the print newsletter version of BLTCR can find this article in their January issues.

For the cost of just three stories, you can get the entire January issue of BLTCR! You'll find stories on medical reviews and corporate fraud, as well as our monthly Q&A column. Go to http://www.hcpro.com/onlinepubs/article.cfm?article=25468 to choose between the PDF and HTML version for just $30. BLTCR online subscribers have free access to this issue, and print newsletter subscribers can find this issue in their mailboxes.
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