Hospital Management
Mastering Brain-Heart Coherence: For Health, Longevity And Performance
The term heart coherence was first coined by researchers at HeartMath Institute in the early 1990s to describe a state of internal alignment in which heart, brain, immune, hormonal and nervous systems are entrained and exhibit properties of a coherent system. A key discovery is the fact that the heart is the most powerful rhythmic and electromagnetic system in the human body. The brain and all other glands,..
Becoming a Renaissance Human: How Neuroscience, Da Vince, and HeartMath Can Make You a Full Human
The speaker is a man on a mission. After recovering from a couple of life-threatening illnesses and re-committing to his full creative expression, people began calling him a "renaissance man". Realizing his zeal for life had returned but aware of how many millions of people have lost their creative spark, he began creating processes and programs to help people and organizations with full creativity.Then the..
Team Synergy: How to Harness Collective Intelligence to Maximize Individua Skills and Talents for Powerful Results
The speaker developed a model for team success and performance called Inner Quality Management. There are four facets of IQM:Internal Self-ManagementCoherent CommunicationBoosting Organizational ClimateStrategic Processes of RenewalHe worked with teams on four continents capturing best practices from the highest-performing teams.He observed the success of phenomenal sports teams like the Golden State Warrio..
The Coherent Organization: Sustainable, Healthy, Compassionate, Effective
The Coherent Organization is based on a model for organizational performance developed by Bruce Cryer, called Inner Quality Management. There are four tenets of IQM, outlined in Bruce’s book, From Chaos to Coherence.Internal Self-ManagementCoherent CommunicationBoosting Organizational ClimateStrategic Processes of RenewalBruce worked with corporations, government agencies, health systems, and academic insti..
Informed Consent Update: Maneuvering the Maze Towards Compliance
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the accrediting organizations, such as The Joint Commission (TJC) and DNV have certain elements required for informed consent. This program will discuss the current CMS hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs), including critical access hospitals, Joint Commission and DNV Healthcare standards, on informed consent requirements. There are three different sections..
Medical Staff and Telemedicine: Meeting CMS Conditions of Participation and the Joint Commission Standards
Any hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid payments must comply with the regulations known as Conditions of Participation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospitalCoPs have sections on all aspects of patient care including medical staff and telemedicine. The medical staff section includes information on credentialing and privileging requirements, implementing Medical Staff (MS) byl..
Complying with OCR Section 1557: Discrimination, Interpreters, Required Signs,and More
This webinar will discuss a law that applies to all hospitals, including critical access hospitals, and other healthcare providers such as physician offices and nursing homes. The law addresses nondiscrimination, required signs and notices, interpreters, a civil rights law for healthcare providers and others and more under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. It forbids discrimination based on sex, race..
Nursing:CMS CoP Standards for Hospitals
Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement must follow the CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and it must be followed for all patients. This program will cover the nursing services section in the hospital CoP manual. Facilities with Deemed Status accredited by the Joint Commission, Health Care Facility Accreditation Program, CIHQ, and DNV ..
CMS Hospital QAPI Standards 2025
Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Conditions of Participation deficiencies are the third most frequently cited of the 24 Conditions for Medicare-certified hospitals. CMS believes that a hospital with a well-designed and well-maintained QAPI program, fully engaged in hospital-wide continuous assessment and improvement efforts can significantly enhance its ability to provide high quality a..
Workplace Violence: CMS and Joint Commission Standards
Workplace Violence has escalated over the past 15 years, especially in the healthcare arena. Such violence is directed at providers and staff, but also towards family members and others with injuries frequently occurring to bystanders such as healthcare providers. In November 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), issued a memo regarding workplace safety addressing care in a safe environment. Ju..
A Guide to HIPAA and Health Information Privacy
If you are in healthcare or work with those in healthcare, you need to understand HIPAA, the broadest and all-encompassing healthcare law of the 1990s and 2000s. From its Security Rules to Business Associate Agreements, from its COVID-based telehealth provisions to its antidiscrimination laws, HIPAA goes well beyond the common view that it is a law of “additional paperwork, whispering names in waiting rooms..
Access Point Case Management: Managing Your Routes of Entry While Maintaining Compliance with the 2-Midnight Rule
In this webinar we will explore the unique roles of the ED and admitting office and transfer center case managers and social workers and how an initial assessment and clinical review can better ensure that patient are placed in the correct setting right from the get-go. We will review the 2-midnight rule and the part that case management plays in managing it. This can better ensure a reduction in use of Con..
Anti-Kickback, Fraud, Stark, and Marketing - Where are the Landmines?
This webinar will provide an in-depth understanding of the Federal False Claims Act, Federal Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, and discuss how marketing activities can trigger either or both. It will also provide the basic building blocks you will need to develop and maintain your company’s precious commodity, your reputation and eliminate exposure to fraud charges based on marketing practices. It will also cov..
Care of the LGBTQI Patient and Their Families: Policies, Procedures, Practices, And Laws
Whether your employer is a clinic, a hospital, home health, or long term care; whether you are an MD, RN, an occupational therapist, a receptionist, or in the C-Suite, approximately 5% - 10% of your patients may be gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Additional patients may be transgender, intersex, or questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation. The healthcare needs of LGBT patients may appear to be the..
Compliance and the Role of the RN and Social Work Case Manager in the Acute Care Setting
This program will review the compliance issues that most greatly impact your practice such as the 2-midnight Rule, the NOTICE Act, HINNs, the important message and others. The joint commission is now monitoring these issues when they have deemed status from medicare, so your compliance is critical to a good joint commission survey outcome.This program will help you to identify where you may have compliance ..