Webinar - Acute Care Hospital CoPs Series Pt. 1 of 5
Offered Through Partnership with Georgia Hospital Association
Acute Care Hospital CoPs Series: Part 1 Introduction, CMS Survey Memos, Surveyor Training Material, Hospital deficiency reports, CMS 3 worksheets, CDC Vaccine, OCR 1557, Required Education, Hard Hit Areas, Board and Medical Staff, Budget, Contracts, Emergency Services, Medical Records, Standing Orders, H&Ps
The fee for each session is $200/member and $250/nonmember. If you register for all five sessions of either the Critical Access Hospital CoPs series or the Acute Care Hospital CoPs series, you will get the fifth session of the respective series free! Contact Cynthia Grinston at (601) 368-3240 for assistance in registering for the full series to ensure you receive the discounted offer.
Please note our new pricing! To support social distancing and remote work, a single registration provides unlimited lines for all employees and trustees of your hospital or system, including a link to view the recording. Please register just one person from your facility and have that person share the access information with others who wish to participate.
Not sure if you’ll be able to make the live session? Everyone who registers will receive a link to the recording of the webinar to view at your convenience at no additional charge.
Objectives:
• Discuss how to locate a copy of the current CMS CoP manual
• Describe that a history and physical for a patient undergoing an elective surgery must not be older than 30 days and updated the day of surgery
• Discuss that verbal orders must be signed off by the physician along with a date and TIME
The agenda will cover:
Overview of the CMS Survey Process and Introduction
• Introduction
• Recent revisions
• Hospital revised worksheets; infection control, PI, and discharge planning
• CMS required education
• Survey process
• Compliance with law
• Order sets, protocols, standing orders
Board and CEO
• Board requirements
• CMS by-laws
• Credentialing and privileges
• Medical staff and the board
• Single medical staff or unified integrated MS
• Privileging others such as PharmD, podiatrist, RD, etc.
• Telemedicine
• CEO requirements
• Care of patients
• Plan and budget
• Contracted services
• Emergency services
• Autopsy changes
• Board responsibilities for infection control and QAPI if chooses system wide
Medical Records (Health Information Management)
• Access to medical records update and new penalties
• Final drug and alcohol federal law (substance use disorder records)
• Organization and staffing
• Confidentiality of records
• Content of records
• Legibility requirements
• Authentication
• Informed consent mandatory and optional elements
• H&P and changes for healthy outpatients
• Verbal orders
• Signature stamps and guidelines
• Discharge summary
• Recent changes to access rules
Who Should Attend?
CEO’s, COO’s, Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Quality
Managers, Consumer Advocate, Nurse Educators, Department directors, All
Nurses, Risk Managers, Hospital Legal Counsel, Compliance Officers, Joint
Commission Liaison, Director of Health Information, Case Managers, Chief
Medical Officer, Nurse Educator, Pharmacists, Social Workers, Discharge
Planners, PI Coordinator, Joint Commission Coordinator, Patient Safety
Officer, Patient Safety Committee, Nurse Managers, Outpatient
Director, Director of Rehab, Dieticians, Infection Control, Medication
Management Team, Anesthesia and Surgery staff, PACU Director, Policy and
Procedures Committee, Respiratory Therapy Director, Director of Radiology,
Infection Preventionist, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Director, and Staff Nurses.
Speaker
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Laura Dixon, BS, JD, RN, CPHRM
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Laura A. Dixon served as the Director, Facility Patient Safety and Risk Management and Operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, Ms. Dixon provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states. Such services included creation of and presentations on risk management topics, assessment of healthcare facilities; and development of programs and compilation of reference materials that complement physician-oriented products.
Ms. Dixon has more than twenty years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, peri-operative services, and pain management. Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the Director, Western Region, Patient Safety and Risk Management for The Doctors Company, Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff for the western United States.
As a registered nurse and attorney, Laura holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a Registered Nurse Diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.