Blog: Or the light that never warms
Hospital Safety Insider, May 4, 2017
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A couple of weeks ago, the friendly folks at CMS issued notice of a proposed regulation change focusing on how Accrediting Organizations (AO) communicate survey results to the general public. At present, the various AOs do not make survey results and subsequent corrective action plans available to the general public, but apparently the intent is for that to change. (Continue reading here...)
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