Interim and Transition Support
Expert Accreditation & Regulatory Guidance
to assist you through a transition with your regulatory, patient safety or quality initiatives.
When you need additional resources to get you through a transition with your regulatory, patient safety or quality initiatives, we can help. By providing onsite interim support and/or transition services, our team of experts can assist with temporary leadership vacancies and transitions, specific project needs, and performance improvement opportunities.
We supply proven strategies and resources to guide you through when you need specific expertise quickly.
Critical Compliance Gaps
When key roles are vacant, or have new, transitioning personnel such as patient safety, compliance officer, or quality director our consultants can step in immediately. This prevents lapses in areas tied to regulations from groups like Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Joint Commission (JC) or other accrediting organizations. Even short gaps in oversight can lead to patient injuries, audit findings or penalties, so continuity is critical.
Audits and Surveys
Our team of consultants are often brought in ahead of regulatory surveys or after poor survey results for
- mock surveys
- documentation gaps
- policy updates
- staff training on survey readiness
- focused education
Policies and Procedures
Healthcare regulations are evolving constantly. Interim compliance specialists review and provide guidance for updates on internal policies to reflect new and changed regulatory compliance standards
Training and Staff Education
Our Interim leaders often conduct targeted training sessions to close knowledge gaps among staff or design customized orientation packages for onboarding new or transitioning employees. This is crucial because compliance failures often come from inconsistent staff understanding rather than intentional violations.
Stabilizing During Leadership Transitions
When a hospital is between executives (like a CNO, CFO, or compliance officer), interim support facilitates maintenance of governance structures and reporting systems, so compliance programs don’t stall.
Crisis or Corrective Action Support
Our consultants bring specialized expertise when a hospital’s internal team is lacking the expertise or knowledge to develop and implement a corrective action plan following violations, are in immediate jeopardy or on a termination track with CMS.
- Assess the current processes and assist in the revision of those processes as needed.
- Assist in the development of mitigation plans
- Assist in the implementation of the mitigation plans
- Track compliance metrics and analyze results
- Report progress to regulators