Adverse Events Reporting: Do you comply with OIG recommendations?
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Sponsored by: The Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP)
Presented on March 29, 2012
Don’t wait for implications from the OIG reports on CMS to trickle down to you.
What can you do now to improve both adverse event reporting and your quality improvement process?
This is not a time to hope you’re doing it right.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has looked at CMS and found its system of hospital oversight has missed opportunities to address patient safety and quality when reporting and learning from adverse events. As a result, OIG has issued recommendations for CMS to implement to improve event reporting structures, corrective processes, and patient safety from the top down, meaning your facility could ultimately be called to face the music.
Is your hospital ready?
Don’t let what the OIG has learned affect the patient safety or the accreditation of your facility or subject you to potential sanctions. This 90-minute webcast with practicing healthcare lawyer Renee H. Martin, JD, RN, MSN, addresses barriers to creating a culture of safety and action plans for effective adverse event reporting processes.
Watch for CMS guidance, review your processes, and make sure your facility is on top of these important findings.
Benefits:
- Ensure your staff knows the action steps to undertake now to avoid sanctions and loss of accreditation
- Learn the role of the OIG in oversight of hospitals and adherence to CMS Conditions of Participation (CoPs)
- Examine steps your hospital must take to improve patient safety and quality improvement in anticipation of increased OIG, CMS survey and enforcement activity, the CMS and The Joint Commission’s oversight
- Implement effective quality improvement steps to address weaknesses identified in the OIG report
At the conclusion of this program, listeners will be able to:
- Recognize the role of the OIG in hospital oversight and compliance with CMS and The Joint Commission accreditation and certification requirements
- Compare OIG findings with current reporting structures and improvement processes at your facility
- Perform OIG recommendations for ensuring compliance with the quality assessment and performance improvement Conditions of Participation (CoPs)
- Evaluate CMS’ response to the reports and identify areas where CMS and The Joint Commission will increase enforcement and survey actions
Agenda
- The role of OIG enforcement
- The OIG’s deemed authority audit function and role in payment of services
- Adherence to hospital CMS Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and oversight of compliance, patient safety, and performance improvement
- OIG audits mandated by the Tax Relief Act of 2006
- Concerns over CMS and The Joint Commission compliance enforcement
- Areas audited by the OIG
- Effective performance improvement measurement
- OIG report findings and recommendations
- Report issued to Congress and CMS
- Findings reported to CMS participants and Joint Commission accredited hospitals
- Compliance findings
- Reimbursement findings
- Accreditation implications
- Recommendations for action
- Identifying weaknesses and evaluating compliance
- Performing and monitoring corrective actions
- Improving communication and guidance on disclosure
- Building a culture of safety
- Action steps
- CMS’ response to report findings
- Avoiding sanctions and loss of accreditation
- Corrective action plan implementation
- Informing the Board
- Improving reporting, quality improvement, and quality management processes
- Measuring implementation
- Q&A
Meet the Speaker:
Renee H. Martin, JD, RN, MSN, is a member of the firm Tsoules, Sweeney, Martin & Orr, LLC. Martin practices healthcare law and advises both individual and institutional healthcare providers on regulatory and transactional matters including patient safety and quality of care, fraud and abuse, EMTALA, reimbursement, compliance, and the development of corporate compliance plans. She speaks and writes nationally on patient safety and quality issues, and serves as a member of the editorial advisory board for several national publications including Briefings on The Joint Commission by HCPro, INC.
Who should listen?
Accreditation professionals, survey coordinators, chief nursing officers, risk managers, directors of accreditation, quality directors, nurse managers, performance improvement directors, QI/QM managers, nurses, administrators, compliance officers, legal professionals
Webcast on-demand
Webcast on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer. It’s a perfect training tool for new staff or a refresher for veteran staff
Webcast system requirements and program materials:
To fully benefit from the webcast experience, please note you will need a computer equipped with sound card, an Internet connection, speakers, Macromedia Flash player Version 7.0 or higher, a recommended screen resolution of 1024 x 768, and an Internet browser (e.g. Internet Explorer). The use of AOL is not recommended.Product Types : Departments :
