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Webinar: The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs) Made Easy 2020 Part 3
Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Category: Education

If a CMS surveyor showed up in your hospital tomorrow, would you be prepared? This five part webinar series will cover the entire CMS Hospital CoP manual. It is a great way to educate everyone in your hospital on all the sections in the CMS hospital manual especially ones that applies to their department.  Hospitals have seen a significant increase in survey activity by CMS. This program will discuss the most problematic standards. The program will cover how the hospital can do a gap analysis to assist in compliance with the CoPs.

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This program will also include the 600 pages of final changes in 2020. This includes the final discharge planning standards and the Hospital Improvement Rule. This includes changes to history and physicals, system wide QAPI and infection control, autopsy, discharge planning, infection control, antibiotic stewardship, medical records, nursing, outpatient, the role of non-physicians in psychiatric hospitals and more. The ligature risk and prevention of suicide will be covered which is a hot area of compliance.

Every hospital that accepts payment for Medicare and Medicaid patients must comply with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation. This manual has interpretive guidelines that must be followed for all patients treated in the hospital or hospital owned departments. Facilities accredited by the Joint Commission (TJC), HFAP, CIHQ, and DNV GL Healthcare must follow these regulations.

There are sections on medical record services, dietary, utilization review, emergency department, surgical services, anesthesia, PACU, medical staff, nursing services, lab, outpatient department, rehabilitation, radiology, respiratory, physical environment, pharmacy, infection control, organ and tissue, patient rights and discharge planning. Hospitals should perform a gap analysis to ensure they are compliant with all these interpretive guidelines and assign one person to be responsible for ensuring compliance.

The interpretive guidelines serve as the basis for determining hospital compliance and there have been many changes in the recent years. There have been significant changes and many important survey memos issued also. CMS issued the final surveyor worksheets for assessing compliance with the QAPI, infection control and discharge planning standards. The proposed changes to the infection control worksheet will be discussed. The worksheets are used by State and Federal surveyors on all survey activities in hospitals when assessing compliance.

Changes in the recent past were made to the medical staff, board, radiology, nuclear medicine, UR, nursing, pharmacy, dietary and outpatient regulations. There were changes to texting of orders, ligature risks, discharge planning, safe opioid use, IV medication, blood and blood products, safe opioid use, privacy and confidentiality, visitation, informed consent, advance directives, rehab and respiratory orders, radiology, QAPI, texting of orders, preventive maintenance, timing of medication, telemedicine, standing orders, informed consent, plan of care, humidity level, Complaint manual and reporting the accreditation organizations, organ procurement contracts, and adverse event reporting to the QAPI program. There were also a record breaking number of survey and certification memos issued over the past few years.

Part 3 of 5: Nursing and Pharmacy

Objectives:

  • Describe that medications must be given timely and within one of three blocks of time
  • Recall that all protocols should be approved by the Medical Staff and an order entered into the medical record and signed off
  • Recall that there are many pharmacy policies required by CMS
  • Recall that a nursing care plan must be in writing, started soon after admission and maintained in the medical record
  • Recall that the hospital must have a safe opioid policy approved by the MEC and staff must be educated on the policy

 Nursing Services

  • Final changes
  • Nurse at bedside when needed
  • Approval of infection preventionist
  • Director of nursing (CNO)
  • Medication administration and safe opioid use
  • Safe injection practices and compounding
  • Staffing
  • Policies and procedures
  • Nursing care plan
  • Staff competency
  • Preparation and administration of drugs
  • Licensure verification
  • Nursing linked to safety
  • Self administration of medication
  • IV and blood transfusions
  • Reporting medication errors and ADEs
  • Agency nurses
  • 30 minute medication rule
  • Timing of medication 3
  • Orders, protocols, standing orders, order sets
  • Verbal orders
  • IV medication and blood transfusions
  • Incident reports

Pharmaceutical Services

  • Final antibiotic stewardship program requirements
  • Revised CDC core for ASP
  • BUD, compounding and more
  • Administration of medication within the BUD from preparation of CSP and change
  • Compounding and amended nursing tag 405
    • Use of compounding pharmacies
    • Obtaining from compounding pharmacy v. manufacturer or registered outsourcing facility
    • BUD, packaging, and labeling of medications
  • Must follow professional standards of care such as USP
  • Best practices recommendations such as ISMP and ASHP
  • Preparing CSPs outside the pharmacy
  • Storage of drugs
  • Radiopharmaceuticals on off hours
  • Pharmacy administration and must meet needs of patients
  • P&P to minimize drug error
  • Standardization of prescribing and communication practices
  • Floor stock
  • Patient safety
  • Drugs and biological
  • First dose review
  • High-risk medication
  • Definitions of medication errors, ADE and DI
  • Notification of physician
  • Policies required and training on policies
  • Pharmacy requirements
  • Storage and security of medications
  • Self administration of medication
  • Outdated or mislabeled medications or unusable drugs
  • Drug interactions and side effects
  • Night pharmacy cabinet standards
  • PI requirements for adverse drug events

Contact: Tammy Wells