Greeley Total Solutions: Preparing for Your CMS Survey
Product Description:
Webcast on CD or Webcast On-Demand
Sponsored by Association of Healthcare Accreditation Professionals
presented on October 20, 2009
HCPro presents the 90-minute webcast Greeley Total Solutions: Preparing for Your CMS Survey. Expert healthcare accreditation consultants Bud Pate, REHS and Sharon Courage, RN, MPH will guide you through what to expect when—not if—CMS surveyors visit your facility. This program will teach survey coordinators the processes, expectations, and CMS jargon to prepare them to survive a CMS survey.
| About the Greeley Total Solutions: These programs, presented by nationally-respected Greeley consultants, are meant to offer more than just advice; they are intended to provide a complete solution to one of the "Frustrating Five Percent"-the standards hospitals most consistently receive RFIs for. |
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this webcast, you will be able to:
- Comprehend "CMS-ese," the complex language of the Medicare regulation bureaucracy
- Explain the complicated process that applies to accredited hospitals and why the state agencies that use these processes often don't know them
- Explore the differences between CMS and Joint Commission processes and standards
- Guide survey coordinators toward solutions that put high risk CMS vulnerabilities to rest once and for all
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA
- The CMS process for accredited hospitals
- Validation surveys—random and for cause
- How to respond: Narrow commitments, then knock it out of the park
- Identify your top CMS deficiencies
- Survey Solutions: Address your CMS vulnerabilities
- Question and answer session
BONUS TOOLS
With this webcast, you'll receive a slide presentation of the program materials and valuable takeaways, which you can use at your facility, including:
- A crosswalk between high-risk Joint Commission and high-risk CMS issues
- Sample policy and model tools for care planning and medications security
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Bud Pate, REHS, vice president for content and development, The Greeley Company (a division of HCPro, Inc). Prior to joining The Greeley Company, Mr. Pate spent fifteen years with system-wide hospital quality and compliance responsibility for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. Before that, Mr. Pate worked for the government, where he was responsible for all acute care licensing and CMS certification activities in Los Angeles County.
Sharon Courage, RN, MPH, vice president of hospital services, The Greeley Company (a division of HCPro, Inc). Courage brings more than 20 years of healthcare experience to her work assisting clients with the development and implementation of a variety of healthcare programs, including quality management. She has served as the director of quality and clinical programs for several hospitals and health systems.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
- Accreditation professionals
- Survey coordinators
- Patient safety professionals
- Quality improvement officers
- Risk managers
- Nurses
WEBCAST ON-DEMAND
We are pleased to offer a new option: webcast on-demand. When you purchase a webcast on-demand, you will be able to view the program anywhere and any time by logging into your account. It's a perfect training tool for new staff or a refresher for veteran staff.
PROGRAM MATERIALS
You will receive presentation slides, and other materials that you can print and distribute to all of your peers at your location.
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