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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new online toolkit to help hospital and health system leaders and clinicians communicate with patients and their families when...
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new online toolkit to help hospital and health system leaders and clinicians communicate with patients and their families when...
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Dr. Diane Heine, MCN Healthcare Regulatory Expert and Writer, will be speaking at the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality’s (CIHQ) 2016 Accreditation & Regulatory Summit. She will be speaking...
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QUESTION: Per CMS regulations, how often must a Critical Access Hospital evaluate its programs? ANSWER: CMS regulation §485.641(a) addresses the periodic evaluation of a Critical Access Hospital’s (CAH) programs. The CAH must carry out...
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced last week that the Department of Defense Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN) at the Walter Reed Institute of...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a final rule that updates health care facilities’ fire protection guidelines to improve protections for all Medicare beneficiaries in facilities...
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The NSPF Patient Safety Congress is a conference dedicated solely to patient safety. The NPSF Annual Congress provides an opportunity for practitioners, leaders, and experts around the world to come...
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Clinical alarm management issues are consistently ranked as the top patient safety issue by many organizations. Alarm hazards is listed as the number one hazard on the ECRI Institute’s 2015...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the new Clean Hands Count campaign urging healthcare professionals, patients, and patients’ loved ones to prevent healthcare-associated infections by keeping their...
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QUESTION What is the CMS regulation that requires treatment modalities to be included in the patient treatment plan? ANSWER CMS §482.61(c) requires that each patient must have an individual comprehensive treatment plan. The...
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MCN Healthcare would like to celebrate and say THANK YOU to all of the women and men who support patient care and safety in our communities and hospitals! MCN HEALTHCARE Regulatory Compliance...
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