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Industry cheers proposed delay of revised Home Health Conditions of Participation
Although home health leaders breathed a sigh of relief about CMS’ March 31 proposal to delay the revised Home Health Conditions of Participation (CoPs), industry experts contend agencies shouldn’t slam the brakes on preparedness efforts.
21 tips for infection control in-service: Staff competencies
A successful in-service program begins with policies and procedures. Once those are firmly in place, plan the content of your in-service education on defining the infection process and ways to contain and control the spread.
CMS decides to pause pre-claim reviews in Illinois and Florida
One day before the home health pre-claim review demonstration was slated to begin in Florida, CMS has decided not to expand the demo there for now. CMS also has decided to pause the demo in Illinois as of April 1, according to a March 31 post on CMS’ website.
Fine tune your antibiotic stewardship methods by November deadline
Prior to the publication of CMS’ final rule on October 4, 2016, which heavily revised many Conditions of Participation (CoP) for Medicare, the agency’s infection control regulation included language about preventing the threat of multi-drug-resistant organisms and creating strategies for effective review of antibiotic use in long-term care facilities to avoid negative, sometimes deadly, effects of resistance. Now, this revised section of the rule addresses antibiotic stewardship efforts directly, and requires providers to take a more targeted approach.
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