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DISCHARGE PLANNING
Performance Improvement in Discharge Planning
There are many reasons to assess and improve the performance of the hospital’s discharge planning processes, but did you happen to know it is also a CMS requirement? That’s right! Under CMS CoP Standard §483.43(e) hospitals are to conduct ongoing assessments of their overall process for discharge planning. But wait, there's…
MEDICAL RECORDS
5 Tips for Discharge Planning
CMS Condition of Participation §482.43 requires an effective discharge planning process that focuses on the patient’s goals and treatment preferences, but that’s not all. This Condition of Participation defines what the patient discharge evaluation must entail and how to respect the patient’s right to…
MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
USP-797 Revisions Focusing on Staff Competency
In 2023, pharmacy departments experienced some big changes in regulatory requirements. As a result, hospitals should prepare for how those revisions will impact surveys. What happened? On November 1, 2023, the final revisions to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter Pharmaceutical Compounding....
INFECTION PREVENTION & CONTROL
The Season for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
ACHOO! According to the CDC, those sneezes could be spreading Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) with nearly all children contracting RSV by their second birthday. It doesn’t end there! People can be infected with RSV at any age and multiple times throughout their lifetime. The CDC estimates between...
INFECTION PREVENTION & CONTROL
Leading an Antibiotic Stewardship Program
In 2019, CDC advocated more action be taken to protect people from antibiotic resistance threats, reporting at least 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths were caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the United States each year. In 2020, CMS acted by overhauling Conditions of Participation…
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