Accreditation Articles by Topic: CMS
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 45, November 10, 2015
The CMS last week released revised hospital guidance for pharmaceutical services and expanded...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 44, November 3, 2015
What are the CMS and Joint Commission hot spots for 2016? Join Bud Pate, REHS, and Lisa Eddy, RN...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 44, November 3, 2015
A proposed rule from CMS would provide greater weight to patient preference during the hospital...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 43, October 27, 2015
The federal government’s value-based purchasing program will award bonuses to 1,800 hospitals...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 40, October 6, 2015
A new Government Accountability Office report examining the first three years of Hospital...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 28, July 14, 2015
A new CMS proposal hopes to reduce end-of-life medical costs by paying healthcare providers to...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 25, June 23, 2015
CMS has proposed new quality metrics, but healthcare providers are raising doubts about the...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 23, June 9, 2015
A new Hastings Center report is critical of the patient satisfaction surveys used by CMS to assess...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 21, May 26, 2015
As of July 1, 2015, several revised Joint Commission hospice requirements will go into effect to...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 19, May 12, 2015
When CMS shared the findings of the 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System, it also published a...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 19, May 12, 2015
The CMS announced plans to expand reporting of healthcare-associated infections to provide a...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 18, May 5, 2015
CMS last week posted the annual update for the 2014 electronic clinic quality measures for eligible...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 17, April 28, 2015
The CMS says more than 400,000 providers accepted pay cuts instead of participate in the federal...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 16, April 21, 2015
The CMS has introduced a star rating system on its Hospital Compare website that is based on...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 7, February 17, 2015
CMS is preparing to launch a revamped version of its Partnership for Patients initiative, which...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 51, December 23, 2014
One in five hospitals are being penalized by the CMS for hospital-acquired conditions.
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 39, September 30, 2014
The CMS is offering a categorical waiver that permits hospitals to use power strips in patient care...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 36, September 9, 2014
After it stopped public reporting data on hospital-acquired conditions, the CMS now plans to resume...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 35, September 2, 2014
New Joint Commission revisions to hospital standards have been made to align with CMS effort to...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 32, August 12, 2014
The fiscal year 2015 IPPS final rule devotes a substantial amount of its updates to hospital...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 28, July 15, 2014
An HCPro webcast on August 20 will walk attendees through the mock survey process to help improve...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 27, July 8, 2014
The CMS has renewed deeming authority for The Joint Commission for hospital accreditation through...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 25, June 24, 2014
The federal government this fall will cut Medicare payments for hospitals that have the worst rates...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 25, June 24, 2014
Revised standards from The Joint Commission that align with CMS requirements go into effect on July...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 24, June 17, 2014
The American Society for Healthcare Engineering clarified that the CMS has not issued a new...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 23, June 10, 2014
The CMS is barring the use of power strips in hospital patient care spaces including operating...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 20, May 20, 2014
Public-private partnerships led to decrease in patient harm during 2011 and 2012.
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 19, May 13, 2014
The CMS last week announced changes to its quality improvement organization program that re...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 15, April 15, 2014
CMS yesterday announced a proposed rule to adopt an updated edition of the Life Safety Code®...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 14, April 8, 2014
A surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y., is accused of slapping...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 9, March 4, 2014
The CMS last week issued another clarification of its two midnight rule, but hospitals say the...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 6, February 11, 2014
After opposition from hospitals and physicians, the CMS has delayed enforcement of its...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 3, January 22, 2014
The CMS is seeking public comments on a new proposed rule on emergency preparedness.
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 44, October 30, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the final 2014 clinical...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 26, June 26, 2012
The Joint Commission announced this week that it has been granted deeming authority for the...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 25, June 19, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the winners for the second...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 21, May 22, 2012
Q: The surveyor found that on the behavioral health unit in the electronic medical records (EMR...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 20, May 15, 2012
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the final rule reforming...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 17, April 17, 2012
CMS this week named 27 organizations as the first accountable care organizations, participating in...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 17, April 17, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has suspended outpatient quality measure OP-19...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 14, April 3, 2012
This year’s AHAP conference, to be held May 10-11 at the Hilton at Walt Disney World®...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 9, February 28, 2012
The Annals of Emergency Medicine has released a report showing that the CMS new image efficiency...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 9, February 28, 2012
Q: We are expecting a survey any day now and I’m worried that some of my staff may not know...
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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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, 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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Accreditation Insider, Issue 48, December 7, 2010
Save the date!
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Accreditation Insider, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
The new guidelines contain information on the supervision of a certified registered nurse...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published revised interpretive guidelines...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The Joint Commission’s hospital accreditation program has been approved for continued deeming...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Inside:
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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, 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 Accreditation and Quality, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
Editor's note: This feature explores problematic Joint Commission standards with expert advice from...
