CMS Hospital Improvement Rules – Nursing, Medical Records, Infection Control, Antibiotic Stewardship Program, Restraints, QAPI, and more

Date : August 10, 2021
Time: 01:00 PM ET
Duration: 120 Minutes
Speaker : Laura A. Dixon

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Description

Overview

 

CMS made some significant changes to the hospital conditions of participation (CoPs) that every hospital should know, including critical access hospitals. It was over 600 pages long and combined three laws into one. This includes changes to nursing, medical records, infection control, QAPI, patient rights, H&Ps, and restraint and seclusion.

 

The new rules require all hospitals to have an antibiotic stewardship program and what the program should include. Also a great part of this document included things that CMS has found to be problematic in hospitals that are already a requirement in the hospital CoPs. CMS also clarified a number of existing requirements and a number of federal regulations that are already final which makes this webinar an excellent resource.

 

Objectives

  • Recall that hospitals have requirements in the CMS CoPs on antimicrobial stewardship program
  • Discuss that CMS change the term LIP (licensed independent practitioner) to LP (licensed practitioner) so PAs can order restraint and seclusion and do assessments if allowed by the hospital
  • Describe that the hospital must have policies that describe which outpatient areas require a RN
  • Recall CMS removed the section that required hospitals to conduct autopsies in cases of unusual deaths.

 

Detailed Outline

Introduction

  • Interpretive guidelines and survey procedure to be issued
  • How to get a copy of the CoP manual, survey memos, etc.
  • Why revise the CoPs

 

Psychiatric Hospitals

  • Non-physicians writing in progress notes
  • How often progress notes must be written

 

Emergency Preparedness

  • Staff training every two years
  • Exercises twice a year
  • EP policies and procedures
  • Emergency plan

 

H&P Changes

  • When is a H&P required
  • Assessments instead in healthy outpatients
  • Medical staff policy requirements
  • Considerations

 

Patient Rights and Medical Records

  • Restraint changes
  • Change from LIP to licensed practitioner (LP)
  • Physician Assistants (PAs) to order and evaluate
  • Non-discrimination under OCR 1557
    • Written policy prohibiting
    • Inform each patient on prohibition against discrimination
    • Inform on how to file a complaint
    • Currently already a law and CMS decides NOT to include in the CoPs
  • Medical Records section was not implemented
    • Content of medical records
    • Document complications and hospital acquired conditions
    • Diagnosis in outpatient record in 7 days
    • Discharge instructions and transfer summaries

 

QAPI

  • Quality indicator data including patient care data
  • Medicare Quality Reporting Data
  • Hospital readmission data
  • Hospital acquired conditions (HACs) and 5 changes

 

Nursing Services and Outpatient Departments

  • Staffing-adequate number
  • Supervisory staff
  • Need to respond immediately when needed
  • Nursing care plans
  • Policies and procedures
  • CNO must evaluate nursing staff including agency staff
  • All outpatient departments must identify if RN must be present
  • Outpatient policy required
  • P&P must be reviewed by MEC
  • Orders for drugs and biologicals
  • Verbal orders

 

Look Back Program and the Lab

  • Notification of tainted blood
  • Patient notification process
  • Time frame for notification

 

Autopsies

  • Deleted requirement to get in unusual cases
  • Coroner cases

 

Four swing bed changes

  • Dental
  • Activity program and assessment and plan of care
  • Social worker
  • Residents performing services

 

Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship

  • Hospital wide surveillance
  • CDC outpatient assessment tools
  • Following national recognized standards and best practices
  • Infection control hospital wide QAPI program
  • Infection control program and policies requirements
  • Qualified infection preventionist
  • Requirements for the antibiotic stewardship program
    • Qualified leader who must be appointed by the board
    • Active program and evidenced based use of antibiotics
    • Document improvements and reduction of CDI
    • Board responsibilities
    • Responsibilities of leader of antibiotic stewardship program
  • Antibiotic stewardship policies
  • Tracking all infections
  • QAPI leadership
  • Competency based staff training

 

Who Should Attend?

Pharmacist, chief nursing officer, health information management, infection preventionist, antimicrobial stewardship team members, nurses, nurse educators, chief medical officer, QAPI director and staff, patient safety officers, regulatory and compliance officers, physician assistants (PAs),  patient advocate, risk management, nurse educators, hospital legal counsel, MEC chair, board members, and anyone involved in implementing the hospitals CoPs.

Speaker

Laura A. Dixon

Laura A. Dixon served as the Director, Facility Patient Safety and Risk Management and Operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020.  In her role, Ms. Dixon provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners and staff in multiple states.  Such services included creation of and presentations on risk management topics, assessment of healthcare facilities; and development of programs and compilation of reference materials that complement physician-oriented products.
Ms. Dixon has more than twenty years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, peri-operative services and pain management.  Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the Director, Western Region, Patient Safety and Risk Management for The Doctors Company, Napa, California.  In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff for the western United States.
Ms. Dixon’s legal experience includes representation of clients for Social Security Disability Insurance providing legal counsel and representation at disability hearings and appeals, medical malpractice defense and representation of nurses before the Colorado Board of Nursing.
As a registered nurse and attorney, Laura holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University, RECEP of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a Registered Nurse Diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.