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Picture this... a surveyor is tracing the surgical services department in your hospital. The surveyor asks for a box of tissue. Does the surveyor have a cold? Not at all. The surveyor places a piece to tissue under the door to an operating room. The tissue is sucked into…

The last thing most people think of when identifying potential deficiencies during a CMS certification survey is the relationship between the governance structure of a hospital system, and compliance requirements for an individual hospital. To make sure your health system's…

While the regulations aren't new, the processes, products and systems used to perform high-level disinfection and sterilization have gained an enormous amount of focus in recent months in the accreditation and certification environment. Generally speaking, the regulations…

Countless terms are bandied about regarding strategies to assure medical record documentation meets accreditation and certification standards. Random sampling, concurrent review, prevalence studies are just a few that come to mind. But have you ever heard of "choke points"?...

The days of a stand-alone hospital are fast coming to an end. Multi-hospital health systems are now the norm, not the exception. While the benefits of a hospital belonging to a health system are many, CMS compliance is not one of them! Medicare expects each hospital to…