Accreditation Articles by Topic: CMS
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2012
CMS has updated its Hospital Compare website in order to include central line-associated...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2012
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will, beginning this month, require some...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 50, December 8, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under the Affordable Care Act, announced...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 49, December 2, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced that the organization is...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 47, November 18, 2011
The Joint Commission has announced that the previously approved patient-centered communication...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 43, October 25, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have granted deeming authority to The Joint...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced proposed changes to the...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2011
The Joint Commission stated this week that is has submitted proposed changes to its standards...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2011
Federal health officials have announced that they have expanded the HospitalCompare website, making...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2011
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has introduced three new initiatives to help...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 27, July 5, 2011
Upcoming working group call
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2011
One in every ten dollars spent on healthcare goes toward preventable readmissions, according to a...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would provide...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 25, June 21, 2011
Earlier this week, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the approval...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 25, June 17, 2011
The Joint Commission and the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) have...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 25, June 17, 2011
Earlier this week, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the approval of...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 25, June 17, 2011
Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a plan for a retrospective...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 24, June 10, 2011
A new proposed rule would allow Medicare and private sector claims data to be used to produce...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 23, June 3, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a set of ten Frequently Asked...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 20, May 17, 2011
The Joint Commission has released an official statement reacting to revisions by the Centers for...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 20, May 13, 2011
The Joint Commission has released an official statement reacting to revisions by the Centers for...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 19, May 10, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a much-anticipated final rule...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 19, May 6, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a much-anticipated final rule...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 18, April 28, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is working with Florida Medical Quality...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 10, March 4, 2011
CMS announced that is has granted deemed status to The Joint Commission for the accreditation of...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 8, February 22, 2011
True or false: CMS exempts hospitals that use The Joint Commission for deemed status from having...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 8, February 17, 2011
The Joint Commission announced this week that, because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 4, January 25, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new rule for hospital...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new rule for hospital...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 3, January 18, 2011
As part of the organization’s ongoing process to comply with CMS Conditions of Participation...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 3, January 14, 2011
As part of the organization’s ongoing process to comply with CMS Conditions of Participation...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 3, January 14, 2011
CMS has recently updated its requirements under the Conditions of Participation (CoP) for patient...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 52, December 22, 2010
The Joint Commission has issued a notification to its accredited hospitals regarding new reporting...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 48, December 7, 2010
Save the date!
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 41, October 19, 2010
In order to comply with changes to CMS Conditions of Participation for hospitals regarding who may...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 42, October 15, 2010
In order to comply with changes to CMS Conditions of Participation for hospitals regarding who may...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 35, August 27, 2010
PC.02.01.05, element of performance (EP) 2, has been updated in order to meet requirements...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Education and training for hospital staff has always been time-consuming and costly for both...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 22, May 31, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a notice of proposed changes...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
The new guidelines contain information on the supervision of a certified registered nurse...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published revised interpretive guidelines...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Many hospitals still struggle with understanding the CMS survey process—particularly...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 6, February 8, 2010
Those healthcare facilities using the Steris© sterilizing system will now have an 18-month...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The Joint Commission’s hospital accreditation program has been approved for continued deeming...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Ever feel like navigating the world of CMS changes is an uphill battle? You are not alone. Survey...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 41, October 5, 2009
Each week, a senior consultant from The Greeley Company's Center for Healthcare Accreditation will...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 40, September 28, 2009
Each week, a senior consultant from The Greeley Company's Center for Healthcare Accreditation will...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 38, September 14, 2009
Last year, on October 1, 2008, Medicare adopted a policy that refuses to pay hospitals' extra costs...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
The Joint Commission has announced it will adopt a new accreditation decision for 2010. This...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 36, August 31, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a 22-page document on Medicare...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Restraint remains one of the most challenging issues in hospital accreditation today. To that end...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
When the concept of introducing ISO 9001 to the hospital setting first arose, hospital leaders...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 26, June 22, 2009
Last week, the Health Information Technology Policy Committee attempted a first draft of the...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 26, June 22, 2009
Each week, a senior consultant from The Greeley Company’s Center for Healthcare Accreditation...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 24, June 8, 2009
In October 2009, the federal government stopped paying hospitals for extra care if a patient fall...
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Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
As of May 18, Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) must meet the latest revisions to...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
In our April column, we took a look at the changes released earlier this year by The Joint...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 20, May 4, 2009
It has been a little over six months since Det Norske Veritas (DNV) was awarded hospital deeming...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 20, May 4, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule updating...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 19, April 27, 2009
After a recent policy change to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy on...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 18, April 17, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the names of 14 communities...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 17, April 10, 2009
Reports from the field indicate that validation surveys by state surveyors on behalf of CMS are...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 16, April 3, 2009
Roughly 20% of Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, a new...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Every month, Briefings on The Joint Commission brings you the latest news in Joint Commission...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
For one Washington hospital, making the move from Joint Commission accreditation to DNV Healthcare...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Reports from the field indicate that validation surveys by state surveyors on behalf of CMS are...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Reports from the field indicate that validation surveys by state surveyors on behalf of CMS are...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
It has been a little more than six months since Det Norske Veritas (DNV) was awarded hospital...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
CMS has clarified its ruling on the physician supervision of on-campus hospital outpatient...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 5, January 30, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized changes, originally proposed...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 3, January 15, 2009
While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pronouncement that it would no longer...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 2, January 9, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced that it will retire a quality...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 51, December 18, 2008
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 49, December 4, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued several proposed decision memos this...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
CMS announced September 26 that it had granted deeming authority to Oslo, Norway–based Det...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
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Hospitals undergo process to change accrediting organizations
Immediate-threat-to-life...
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Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
ASCs make proactive changes in advance of final rule
As ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) await the...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 49, November 20, 2008
CMS announced September 26 that it had granted deeming authority to Oslo, Norway–based Det...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 48, November 13, 2008
Q. If a patient is in restraints and it looks like he can do without them, and I take them off, can...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
CMS has announced the approval of DNV Healthcare, Inc., as a deeming authority for U.S. hospitals...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 46, October 31, 2008
CMS announced intentions to build upon the connection between the quality of care provided to...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 46, October 31, 2008
The Joint Commission has issued an official response to an announcement to the Centers for Medicare...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 45, October 24, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in the October 24, 2008 Federal...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 44, October 16, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the deadline for Initial...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 43, October 10, 2008
The Health Research & Education Trust has received $180,000 in grant funding to study the...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 43, October 10, 2008
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has announced guidance for organizations seeking to...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 42, October 3, 2008
October 1 has arrived: Beginning this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
There was an interesting e-mail recently posted on a national patient safety listserv about a...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
There are several ways that hospitals preparing for CMS surveys can get sidetracked.
Let’s...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 41, September 26, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday the approval of DNV...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 38, September 8, 2008
The American Hospital Association asked The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
Editor's note: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, director of hospital risk management at OHIC...
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Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
Editor's note: This feature explores problematic Joint Commission standards with expert advice from...