AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Quality Improvement Report
presented on December 19, 2007
Please note: this is a special two-hour audioconference!
Are you ready? In less than a year, CMS will not pay for eight preventable conditions unless they are documented as present on admission (POA).
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They include:
- Serious preventable event—object left in surgery
- Serious preventable event—air embolism
- Serious preventable event—blood incompatibility
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
- Pressure ulcers
- Vascular catheter-associated infection
- Surgical site infection—mediastinitis after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- Patient falls
Is your staff prepared to screen for and protect your patients from these hospital-acquired conditions?
This special two-hour audioconference will provide you with the most comprehensive information you need straight from the source. Tom Valuck, MD, JD, director of the special program office of value-based purchasing for CMS, and Chesley Richards, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will detail the overall requirements of the new IPPS rule. These two leaders in the field will also explain how to report the data, the rule’s phased-in implementation, and the potential consequences for failure to comply.
As an extra bonus, Kathy Duncan, RN, renowned expert on the prevention of pressure ulcers and a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will offer strategies on screening and preventing bed sores.
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA
- Relationship between non-payment for certain hospital-acquired conditions and value-based purchasing, also known as pay for performance
- CMS' Statutory Authority
- Statutory parameters
- Workgroup process
- Rulemaking process
- Eight selected reasonably preventable conditions
- Selection criteria
- Meaning of reasonably preventable
- Selected conditions and rationale
- Other conditions for consideration
- Present on admission indicator
- Purpose, structure, and process of POA reporting
- Phased implementation
- Documentation requirements
- Pressure ulcers
- How to do document
- What you should do upon admission
- Using staff to generate ideas
- How to prevent pressure ulcers
- Best practices
A question and answer session follows the presentation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the program, you will be able to:
- Understand the eight preventable conditions and why they were selected
- Apply techniques to prevent the conditions
- Understand what present on admission indicator is
- Determine how to implement and report POA
- Learn best practices to help prevent and reduce pressure ulcers
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Thomas Valuck, MD, Medical Officer and senior advisor to Herb Kuhn, acting deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Chesley Richards, MD, Deputy Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kathy Duncan, RN, a faculty member of the IHI’s 5 Million Lives Campaign.
BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive helpful “take-aways” included in your materials packet. These materials are provided with PDF links.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN
Quality improvement officers, patient safety officers, risk managers, survey coordinators, nursing managers, executive officers
NEW PURCHASE OPTION: AUDIO ARCHIVE
In addition to the regular purchase option for HCPro audioconferences, 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 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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