3 Interactive Courses on CMS Nursing, Discharge Planning & the IMPACT Act and Medical Records CoP Standards for Hospitals and Proposed Changes

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• Webinar CD/Recorded will have a series of modules. Our experts have delivered the modules using PowerPoint Presentations
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Webinar Topics:

• Medical Record Standards: What Hospitals Should Know About the CMS Hospital CoPs
• 2017 CMS Proposed Changes to the Discharge Planning Standards and the IMPACT Act
• Nursing: CMS CoP Standards for Hospitals and Proposed Changes: 2017 Update

Who will benefit?

• Health Information Management Director and Staff
• CEO/COO/CMO/CNO Officers
• Compliance, Regulatory and Patient Safety Officers
• All Nurses with Direct Patient Care
• Nurse Managers/Supervisors/Staffs/ Educators
• Medical / Surgery Department Nurse Manager
• OR/ ICU/ CCU Nurse Director
• Billing Office, Lab, PI, IS and Out Patient Director
• Director of Radiology
• Risk Managers
• Hospital Legal Counsel
• Quality Improvement Coordinator
• Emergency Department Manager
• Policy and procedure committee
• Discharge Planners
• HIM, Education Department and Audit staff
• Anyone involved in the implementation of the CMS or Joint Commission medical record and documentation standards
• Anyone responsible for compliance with hospital regulations including documentation compliance

Webinars included in the Package:

Medical Record Standards: What Hospitals Should Know About the CMS Hospital CoPs (Duration: 90 Minutes)

This program will cover in detail the CMS regulations and interpretive guidelines for medical records. This is an extremely important section and includes hot issues like verbal orders, history and physicals, organization of the department, standing orders, discharge summaries, medication orders, and more. Also cover some new information on HIPAA from the Office of Civil Rights. It will discuss the important proposed changes to the CMS discharge planning standards and the number of things that will need to be documented in the medical record. It will discuss proposed changes to the federal law on alcohol and drug records.

Objectives of the Presentation:

• Recall that CMS has specific informed consent requirements
• Describe when a history and physical must be done and what is required by CMS and the Joint Commission
• Discuss that both CMS and TJS have standards on verbal orders
• Recall that CMS has standards for preprinted orders, standing orders, and protocols

2017 CMS Proposed Changes to the Discharge Planning Standards and the IMPACT Act (Duration: 90 Minutes)

Join this webinar by expert speaker Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, to discuss the impact of the federal law and get practical strategies to prevent hospital readmissions. It will also discuss what evidence based studies exist and what are being planned in the future to reengineer the discharge process. The session will talk about discharges including the IMPACT Act, which is supposed to have a great impact on hospitals. This webinar will also discuss the proposed CMS discharge planning standards which are substantial, including new requirements for the transfer form and discharge planning evaluation.

Objectives of the Presentation:

• Recall that there are five things that must be included in the discharge instructions
• Describe that there are many things that are now required to be included in the transfer form
• Identify that the discharge summary and instructions will need to be sent to the primary care practitioner within 48 hours of discharge
• Discuss that there are five things that must be in the standardized assessment form as required by the federal IMPACT law

Nursing: CMS CoP Standards for Hospitals and Proposed Changes: 2017 Update (Duration: 120 Minutes)

This session by expert speaker Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, is a must attend for any clinical nurse or nurse leader or person interested in ensuring compliance with the CMS hospital conditions of participation in nursing. There has been an increase in surveillance and scrutiny in recent times to ensure that every hospital is in compliance with the hospital CoPs.

Objectives of the Presentation:

• Recall that CMS has a section on nursing services that every hospital must follow even if accredited
• Describe that all medications must be administered within three different time frames
• Discuss that nursing care plans are a frequently cited area by CMS and recall a recent change
• Recall that all verbal orders must be signed off and need to include both a date and time

Instructor Profile:

Sue Dill Calloway is president of Patient Safety and Healthcare Consulting and Education company with focus on medical legal education especially Joint Commission and the CMS hospital CoPs regulatory compliance. She also lectures on legal, risk management and patient safety issues. She was a director for risk management and patient safety for five years for the Doctors Company. She was the past VP of Legal Services at a community hospital in addition to being the Privacy Officer and the Compliance Officer. She was a medical malpractice defense attorney for ten years. She has 3 nursing degrees in addition to a law degree. She is a well known lecturer and the first one in the country to be a certified professional in CMS. She also teaches the course for the CMS certification program. She has written 102 books and thousands of articles.