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Sterile Instrument Safety is a Main Focus of Regulatory Surveys
We are hearing from the field that regulatory surveyors are heavily focused on sterile instrument safety, specifically on ...
Read More CMS Releases Resource Tool Kit for Roadmap Out of the Current Public Health Emergency
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just released a resource tool kit to guide healthcare organizations ...
Read More New & Revised Antibiotic Stewardship Requirements Announced by TJC
New and revised Antibiotic Stewardship requirements will be going into effect in January 2023 for Joint Commission Hospital ...
Read More Regulation Changes proposed to CLIA – TIME SENSITIVE
CMS has proposed changes to the CLIA regulations. The proposed changes were published in the Federal Register dated ...
Read More Monitoring of Intravenous Fluid Warming Cabinets
The Joint Commission has recently clarified its position on the monitoring of intravenous fluid storage temperatures. Medication management ...
Read More TJC Proposed Home Health Accreditation Emergency Management Chapter Revisions
This past Thursday, July 21, 2022 The Joint Commission published its proposed new Emergency Management Chapter, for healthcare ...
Read More CMS Update for Proposed Rule Changes – Critical Access Hospitals
CMS Update! Proposed Rule - Changes to Critical Access Hospital Requirements and New Conditions of Participation for Rural ...
Read More EMTALA Clarification
Following President Biden's executive order released Friday (July 11, 2022), HHS released guidance to clarify that emergency care ...
Read More CMS QSO-17-22-ALL Released
On June 14, 2022, CMS released QSO-17-22-ALL which announces new criteria for when surveyors will survey for Covid-19 ...
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