Part One of Ten: Introduction, hospital deficiency reports, CMS Survey Memos of interest, compliance with laws including OCR 1557, required education, emergency services, and outpatient services.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss how to locate the current CMS CoP manual
• Describe essential requirements from recent memos, including texting of orders
• Describe the requirements of emergency services to be integrated into other services
• Discuss the necessary number and types of personnel for outpatient services.

Who Should Attend:-

CEOs, chief operations officers, chief nursing officers, chief legal officers, nurses and medical staff, quality managers, nurse educators, risk managers, compliance officers, chief of health information, pharmacists, social workers, discharge planners, patient safety officers, outpatient director, director of rehab, infection control, directors of radiology.