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Review of 2024 CMS CoPs Changes and Policies for Hospitals and CAHs
Date: 12/17/24
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Central time
Audience:
Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Compliance Officer, Emergency Department Personnel, Joint Commission Coordinator, Medical Records, Quality Improvement personnel, Risk Manager, Legal Counsel.
Overview:
2024 was an interesting year for health care providers as changes to regulations, including those related to EMTALA, the continuation of respiratory illnesses impacting service delivery, and updates to consent and texting requirements, impacted all hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). This webinar will cover the five new memos and one policy from 2024. Many of these changes and updates are not reflected in the current Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) manuals, but hospitals must still comply.
Learning Objectives:
-Recall the requirements related to texting of patient information and orders.
-Describe the new requirements for examinations outside a scheduled procedure.
-Discuss the required information and timeframes for reporting respiratory illnesses.
-Explain the six new components for providing safe maternal health in emergencies.
Speaker:
Laura A. Dixon served as the director of risk management and patient safety for the Colorado Region of Kaiser Permanente. Prior to joining Kaiser, she served as the director, facility patient safety and risk management and operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states. Dixon has more than 20 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 in Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff for the western United States As a registered nurse and attorney, Dixon 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.
This speaker has no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this presentation.
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