September 4, 2024
10:00 AM EST
The use of restraints and seclusion is one of the most risk prone patient care interventions organizations use to address both violent behaviors and protect medical interventions. As an intervention reserved for last resort, the infrequent use of restraints and seclusion can reduce an organization’s ability to ensure compliance with CMS regulatory requirements. Our presentation will focus on ensuring leaders understand the critical steps in the process of using restraints and seclusion to ensure patient/staff safety and regulatory readiness.
Sponsored by the North Carolina Healthcare Association
Presented By The Courtemanche & Associates Consulting Team
October 1, 2024
10:00 AM EST
Leaders must stay abreast of those regulatory compliance areas that present the most challenges to healthcare organizations. Our presentation will review the top 5 problematic regulatory compliance areas for hospitals during 2024. This will include observations reported by regulatory agencies in addition to the most common findings from our consultant teams during client mock surveys. Additionally, we will offer recommendations on mitigation strategies to correct deficiencies and maintain compliance with these regulatory requirements.
Sponsored by the North Carolina Healthcare Association
Presented By The Courtemanche & Associates Consulting Team
October 29, 2024
10:00 AM EST
As healthcare organizations have committed themselves in supporting a patient safety process culture, it is imperative that organizations have a risk assessment process to identify, analyze and evaluate and prioritize risks that may have a negative influence on the quality and safety of services rendered. However, many organizations experience problems with their risk assessment process in how to express the risk, how to analyze it and how to use risk assessment process as a tool to improve patient safety. Our presentation will review the key aspects of the risk assessment process and how to leverage the comprehensive approach in addressing patient safety.
Sponsored by the North Carolina Healthcare Association
Presented By The Courtemanche & Associates Consulting Team
November 26, 2024
10:00 AM EST
An essential part of the discharge plan and to potentially reducing readmissions is by educating patients on important issues of their care. Foundational to this is ensuring we understand their readiness and ability to learn. Our presentation will focus on the process of assessing patients for both their readiness and ability to receive this education and how to use this information to design more meaningful and effective teaching approaches that are individualized to the patient.
