Increased oversight means more pressure on AOs to spot problems
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, December 1, 2018
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Expect CMS to continue to put pressure on The Joint Commission (TJC) and other accrediting organizations (AO) to find more of the serious fire safety and infection control issues the federal agency says they are still missing during surveys.
Also, you may find CMS surveyors showing up soon with your AO team. But they won’t be there to watch you. They’re going to be watching the watchers, as a part of a pilot program that could potentially end the 60-day validation survey process.
In a new report to Congress, CMS says the disparity rate between serious problems identified by the AOs at hospitals and those found by CMS surveyors within 60 days of survey was 46% in fiscal year 2016, up from 38% and 39%, respectively, in the two preceding fiscal years.
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