Nursing homes across the country are still being hit with frequent Focused Infection Control surveys, nine months after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that surveyors should ...
A year and a half after a federal watchdog blasted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over extensive delays in nursing home inspections, year-end data for fiscal year 2023 shows there has ...
The following is written by Carla Daley, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health. At Regent, we believe in “walking the walk,” meaning that our facilities should be status ...
Clostridium difficile infection rates in many healthcare facilities have not declined despite an increase in activities targeting this infection, according to a survey by the Association for ...
Thirteen states ignored CMS recommendations and did not perform targeted infection control surveys to prepare for COVID-19 patients last year, HHS’ Office of Inspector General said in a June 28 report ...
For nursing homes, oversight primarily consists of three inspection types: complaints, infection control and recertification as established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
With ambulatory surgery centers facing stricter infection control guidelines and requirements from government and accrediting bodies, Roberta Bannon, RN, MS, a surveyor for Healthcare Facilities ...
On February 4, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued important updated guidance in a memo (QSO-21-08-NLTC) regarding how acute and continuing care facilities—including ...
As 2020, thankfully, comes to a close, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released the first of several reports on the impact of COVID-19 on nursing ...
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