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September 23, 2009 @ 2:00pm Central
Presented by: Lisa Thomas, BSN
Accreditation Consultant
Due to the Sense of Urgency of this Issue, we have more dates...
- September 29 @ 11:00am Central
- October 7 @ 9:00am Central
- October 12 @ 12:00pm Central
- October 22 @ 2:00pm Central
- October 27 @ 9:00am Central
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Greetings!
The HHS (Health and Human Services) Secretary,
Kathleen Sebelius, on July 30th, 2009 provided the
down payment of 10 million dollars as part of the
payout with the Recovery Act of 2009. One million
dollars is to be used BEFORE Sept 30th on more than
125 ASC surveys in 12 states.
- "We have spoken to a surveyor who had just
turned in a 300-page citation on a Southwest
state ASC."
- "A recent survey in a Central/Midwest State had 4-
surveyors attend the site visit."
- "A deemed status AAAHC center was given 95
page citation in a Rocky Mountain State."
- "One Western State surveyor told us that she was
given the authority to shut an ASC down on the spot if
she so deemed it was necessary."
- "Another surveyor reported that they must follow at
least one patient from admission through to
discharge. Special attention is to be paid to transition
points."
- "Significant findings are occuring in one Northwest
State where physicians and nurses are found to be
complacent."
- "We have been told that surveyors have been
trained to look for cases with less than 90-
minutes"
- "Reports are coming in that surveyors are finding
out when the center opens, are coming
in early on day-one and told that they want to observe
cases on day-one".
- It is in the surveyor's training that the national
management chains having a single Infection Control
Director for all their locations is not sufficient.
Surveyors will be looking for an on-site Infection
Control Director or subcontracted Infection Control
Consultant. If not, the facility will be found non-
compliant.
Another nine million dollars will be made available in
October for the remaining 38 states.
The CDC will make an additional $40,000,000.00
available to state public health departments to
create/expand state-based HAI (Healthcare acquired
infections) prevention and surveillance efforts.
APIC member and AAAHC accreditation expert /
consultant, Lisa Thomas will be presenting on
this very important subject that could help you save
yourself from penalties handed out by CMS.
Participants will be able to:
- Identify the ASC's Infection Control Program:
- 416.51(a) Sanitary Environment, &
- 416.51(b) Infection Control Program
- Obtain the CMS surveyor 'tool' checklist - utilized for
on-site surveys
- Lastly, Lisa has been able to acquire the actual
CMS Infection Training Program used to train the
surveyors. Although we can't give it out, Lisa can
certainly talk through the key point as to what the
inspectors have been told to look for and how to
interpret and rule on their findings.
As always, the Excellentia consultant will be available
during the webinars and afterwards for a reasonable
amount of questions to further assist you.
Excellentia and Lisa Thomas also offer on-site pre-
audit assistance.
Follow-Up Infection Control Newsletter Up-dates Included
Lisa will also author a monthly Infection Control
newsletter with news updates and we will send it out
to all webinar participants. Our goal will be to keep
you abreast of what we are hearing from each State in
terms of CMS audit findings, rulings and tips as to
how to protect yourself from a negative survey/audit.
This one to one & half hour webinar presentation by
Lisa Thomas, BSN is an investment of $199.00 and
sure to be worth every penny.
Handout materials of the slide presentation and other
documents will be provided by email prior to the
webinar for review and follow along with Lisa.
Date:
September 23, 2009
Time:
2:00pm Central Time Zone
Location:
On-line webinar
More Info / Call:
636.875.5088 for Cathy
Register Now this date or future dates.
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Can't Attend...Order This Event on DVD
The exact same presentation will be recorded and
available on DVD. We will include a copy of the
handouts referenced in this webinar. The only thing
that is missing is "you" and your opportunity to
ask 'live" questions.
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