Lab Challenges Update
Avoid the Latest Lab Accreditation and Regulatory Pitfalls
Product Description:
Audio Conference on CD or Audio On-Demand
Sponsored by the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP)
presented on June 18, 2009
The hospital lab can feel like a very unstable place these days, with budget cuts, management directives, and performance-based revenue constantly threatening to undermine quality and accreditation. Lab management must be practical in the changing environment, and adapt to ensure the facility is on board with the overall direction of the hospital. Failure to do so can jeopardize accreditation, especially since the Joint Commission has empowered surveyors to sharpen scrutiny on issues not previously considered problematic.
Avoid complacency. A proactive approach is your best strategy.
Listen to HCPro's 90-minute audio conference, Lab Challenges Update: Avoid the Latest Lab Accreditation and Regulatory Pitfalls. Healthcare consultant Anne C. Belanger, MA, MT (The Greeley Company) and quality director/patient safety officer Eileen Willey, RN, BSN, MS, CPHQ (St. Joseph Medical Center) provide valuable information labs can use to ensure lab quality does not get ignored in hospital-based initiatives and still meets surveyor standards. You'll discover how to keep your lab relevant and compliant in the wake of 2009 Joint Commission waived testing requirement changes, and patient treatment trends such as pay for performance.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this audio conference, you will be able to:
- Discuss recent updates to waived testing requirements and regulations
- Identify and discuss field standards under consideration
- Develop your own tracers
- Discuss impact of pay for performance on the laboratory
- Identify what impact the new CMS guidelines have on the hospital's bottom line
- Identify ways to integrate the lab quality plan with hospital based initiatives
- Discuss methods to avoid worst-case scenarios
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA:
- Waived testing update
- 2009 changes
- Joint Commission versus CAP
- Field standards under consideration
- Impact on information systems
- Develop tracers to improve compliance
- Why tracers work
- How to develop your own tracers
- Get out of complacency
- Impact of pay for performance
- Impact on hospitals bottom line
- Integrating lab quality plan with hospital-based initiatives
- How to integrate with hospital based PI
- A question and answer session follows the presentation
BONUS TOOLS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and:
- A lab quality plan
- 2 lab tracers
These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Anne C. Belanger, MA, MT (ASCP), consultant, The Greeley Company (a division of HCPro, Inc., Marblehead, MA). Belanger has been a consultant for eight years and previously served as the Executive Director of Laboratory Accreditation Services for The Joint Commission. During her tenure at The Joint Commission, she served as a surveyor in the hospital accreditation program, directed the overall operations of the laboratory accreditation program, and lead the laboratory product line team. Prior to her work with The Joint Commission, Ms. Belanger held managerial and supervisory positions at Mesa (AZ) General Hospital, St. Mary Hospital (Livonia, MI), and Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH).
Eileen Willey, RN, BSN, MS, CPHQ, quality director/patient safety officer, St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson, MD). As the founding executive partner of HealthCare Quality Resources in Annapolis, MD, Willey previously served as an independent quality management consultant specializing in practical application of accreditation compliance strategies and performance improvement methods and tools. She is an experienced lecturer with more than 30 years in healthcare, including bedside clinical care, clinical nurse specialist, and administration.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
- Accreditation professionals
- Survey coordinators
- Patient safety professionals
- Quality improvement officers
- Risk managers
- Laboratory directors/managers
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand 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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