AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Briefings on Patient Safety
presented on June 27, 2007
Go public or pay the price. Are you ready for Senate Bills 1301 and 1312?
Effective July 1, 2007 in California, Health & Safety Code section 1279.1 will require hospitals to report “adverse events” to the Department of Health Services (DHS) within five days of their discovery. Events that are ongoing urgent or emergent threats to the welfare, health, or safety of patients, personnel, or visitors must be reported within 24 hours. DHS will investigate all reports, and if substantiated, the reports and outcomes of the investigations and inspections will become public information. Moreover, even before making the report, hospitals must inform affected patients about the report. Other recently adopted laws, Health & Safety Code section 1280.1 and 1280.3, dramatically increase the fines imposed on hospitals that are out of compliance with state licensing requirements. Each of these new laws has potentially serious implications on a hospital’s risk management, reputation, and operations.
Listen to two consultants from the Greeley Company and a legal expert from Foley & Lardner LLP, for an important audioconference on the new California law. During this 90-minute program, speakers explain the laws’ requirements, discuss their implications, and offer strategies and advice on how to meet this unprecedented demand in California for public reporting.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this audioconference you will be able to:
- Implement and comply with a practical reporting structure under California law.
- Anticipate and prepare for post-reporting DHS investigation and inspection process.
- Protect your hospital's peer review process by clearly delineating reported actions from Medical Staff review.
- Understand DHS’ authority to impose significant fines (up to $25,000) for “immediate jeopardy” violations, and the anticipated regulations that will expand even further DHS’ authority to impose fines.
AGENDA
- CMS and DHS rules for reporting restraint deaths, adverse actions, and unusual occurrences
- Practical, common sense approaches to identifying, investigating, and reporting
- After the report: How to prepare for the aftermath
- The implications of the $25,000 fine for immediate jeopardy
- Implications for Joint Commission accreditation
- Medical staff issues
A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Bud Pate, REHS, practice director of west coast operations, The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc, Marblehead, MA. Prior to joining The Greeley Company, Mr. Pate spent 15 years with Los Angeles County, where he supervised all CMS certification and DHS licensing activities related to hospitals and other healthcare settings. After leaving the County, he spent 15 years at Kaiser Permanente in southern California. During his tenure at Kaiser, Mr. Pate was responsible for a wide range of region-wide quality and compliance initiatives.
Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, senior consultant, The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc, Marblehead, MA. Dr. Smith brings 25 years of clinical practice and hospital management experiences to his work with physicians and hospitals across the United States. His clinical practice as a surgeon and multiple roles in senior hospital administration make him uniquely qualified to assist Greeley clients in developing solutions to their complex staffing and managerial problems. Dr. Smith has an expertise in peer review.
Sarah G. Benator, Esq., senior counsel, Foley & Lardner LLP. Ms. Benator is a member of the firm's Health Care Industry Team and its Provider Operations Practice. She advises a broad range of healthcare clients, including hospitals, health systems, long-term care facilities, medical groups, and durable medical equipment suppliers in regulatory, operational, and medico-legal matters. She regularly advises healthcare organizations on peer review matters, practitioner credentialing, disciplinary hearings, state licensing, Medicare certification, Joint Commission accreditation, medical staff bylaws, governing body bylaws, EMTALA, bioethics, medical records, and consent and confidentiality.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
This audioconference will benefit any healthcare departmental and organizational leaders concerned with California regulations. Titles include:
- Chief executive officers
- Chief operating officers
- Performance improvement directors
- Risk managers
- Medical Staff leaders
- Attorneys
- Healthcare consultants
PROGRAM MATERIALS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials. These materials are provided with PDF links.
NEW PURCHASE OPTION
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audioconferences—audio tape or audio CD, we are pleased to offer a new option, an audio archive. Audio archive allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player.
Purchase a tape, CD, or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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