Hospital Management
Infection Prevention Across the Construction Continuum: The Need for Planning for Renovation and Maintenance
Healthcare facilities continue to undergo a transformation as service lines and patient populations change. Construction, renovation, and maintenance of facilities provide legal, regulatory, business and ethical responsibilities to design, construct and maintain a safe environment for patients, their family, staff, and practitioners. An infection prevention risk assessment document provides guidelines for m..
Medical Staff, Telemedicine and Other Changes: Meeting CMS Conditions of Participation and TJC Standards
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital CoPs has a section on the medical staff. It includes information on credentialing and privileging requirements, implementing Medical Staff (MS) bylaws and rules and regulations, hospitals in systems. This webinar will also cover the Joint Commission standard for medical staff, plus telemedicine and the federal regulations under CMS associated wit..
Modernizing Medical Staff Bylaws
Sometimes hospitals fall for a complicated re-do of medical staff documents that fall apart after the consultants leave the building. Or the medical staff bylaws have developed into a patchwork quilt of quick-fix additions created to respond to a plan of correction or accreditation survey report. Even updated bylaws can be improved by isolating processes to expose inefficiencies and inconsistencies.Th..
National Practitioner Data Bank Expanded Reporting Parameters
Hospitals must file a National Practitioner Data Bank report on any physician’s surrender of privileges if an investigation is underway. This has always been a Data Bank reporting requirement, intended to discourage plea bargains which allowed physicians to avoid being reported if they agreed to waive hearing rights. Under the new Guidebook, expanded descriptions of “investigation” and “surrender” stretch w..
New Federal Regulations Affect Healthcare Providers and Amateur Radio
The Webinar will center on: Introduction to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service regulations (CMS.gov), vulnerabilities facing medical facilities, businesses, and emergency communications provided by Amateur Radio.Amateur Radio’s primary purpose for existing is to provide backup communications in times of disaster. The webinar presents methods used to provide communications when Internet and Phone Sy..
Return to Work: COVID-19 Considerations
We will review consideration for opening businesses in light of COVID-19. We will consider reasons to open and the liability risks associated with that activity. If the decision is made to open, we will discuss how to minimize liability by adopting policies, changing shifts, modifying physical space, screening employees, and requiring the use of PPE such as masks.Areas Covered Reason to OpenLiability RisksE..
Sexual Misconduct in Mental Health – Strict Laws and the Ways Therapists Violate Them
This webinar is an informative trip into the world of sexual misconduct in the various mental health professions. Learn the most common, strict laws that apply to protect the patient, the staff of the therapist, and sometimes even the therapists themselves from sexual misconduct. Examine case law from the courts where state licensure boards have sanctioned the therapist for crossing that sacred line between..
The CMS Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning
This program will review the current rules and regulations from the Conditions of Participation (CoP) for Discharge Planning. The CoP is the legal and regulatory requirements that hospitals and case management professionals must follow in order to be compliant in their role as discharge planners. This will be followed by a review of the changes to the Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning that ..
The CMS Discharge Planning Rules and Regulations for 2018
This program will review the current rules and regulations from the Conditions of Participation for discharge planning. We will then discuss the most recent changes to the Medicare program and how they will impact the roles of the RN case manager and the social worker. We will review strategies for safely transitioning your patients across the continuum of care. In addition, we will review how to engage oth..
The Disruptive Practitioner: A Danger to the Hospital’s Operation
Most disciplinary policies are progressive. A progressive policy applies increasingly more severe sanctions to additional incidents of bad behavior. It is very important that the organized medical staff have a disruptive practitioner policy. This webinar will discuss the development of such a policy, including what it should include, and how it should be implemented. The course will also provide a detailed ..
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act: The Quest for Immunity in Your Peer Review Process
This webinar will discuss the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) in detail, including the standards that must be met to achieve immunity under the act. The HCQIA itself will be reviewed, including a detailed look at the Congressional purpose for the act. The legislative history of the act will be reviewed to gain an understanding of the intent of Congress in passing the act.Next will be a review of..
The Nuts and Bolts of Filing a Whistleblower Case
The webinar will provide an overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act (FCA) and how it works. It will also show how to file a Complaint under the FCA, what is required, and how a violation of other federal laws can form the basis for an action under the Act. We will start with a review of the Federal False Claims Act and discuss how it works. The webinar will take the Federal False Claims Act apart and..
Undercover Investigations and the Use of Deception by Law Enforcement Attorneys
Learn the general steps a state government agency undertakes to conduct investigations into misconduct in health care practice with a focus on undercover investigations of various health care practitioners. Cover the differences between civil and criminal investigations with the differing goals of each, and understand how criminal rights span both kinds of investigations.Investigations either exonerate or i..