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We hope you find the following resources helpful for your ongoing compliance with TJC and CMS requirements. We have included articles from the current issue of our newsletter as well as access to our newsletter archives and useful Industry Links for Behavioral Healthcare.

To read articles written prior to January 2015, please view our Newsletter Archive.

CMS Regulations for Psychiatric Hospitals: The Compliance Challenge

CMS Regulations for Psychiatric Hospitals: The Compliance Challenge

Is your psychiatric hospital feeling the burden of CMS regulations? If so, you’re not alone. The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) recently released a report on this important topic: The High Cost of Compliance: Assessing the Regulatory Burden on Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities. The report focuses on three regulatory requirements for Medicare certified psychiatric hospitals …

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TJC Competence Assessment Session: Survey Management Strategies

TJC Competence Assessment Session: Survey Management Strategies

Fourth in our series on TJC Survey Management Strategies. It’s Day 3 of your TJC survey. Time for the TJC Competence Assessment Session. Surveyors have given you a list of staff names. Now they’ll review your Human Resource and Staff Training files for those individuals. We’ve seen this session go smoothly. And we’ve seen it descend into chaos. The result can be several finding on your survey report in the Human Resources chapter. So, what are the current high focus areas? And the common compliance challenges? Let’s review those and help you get prepared for this session.

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CMS Resurvey: Strategies for Survey Success

CMS Resurvey: Strategies for Survey Success

Has your psychiatric hospital been put in Immediate Jeopardy by CMS? Or, had a CMS survey with Condition level findings? Either way, you need to prepare for your CMS resurvey. So, it’s time to shift into high gear. In our last article Immediate Jeopardy and CMS Surveys: How to Respond, we covered Immediate Jeopardy and your response strategy. In this article, we address how to prepare for your CMS resurvey.

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Immediate Jeopardy & CMS Surveys: How to Respond

Immediate Jeopardy & CMS Surveys: How to Respond

Has your psychiatric hospital been cited by CMS for an Immediate Jeopardy situation? If so, “Immediate Jeopardy” can be a somewhat frightening term. What exactly does it mean and what are the implications? Most importantly, how should you respond? In this article, we provide important information on CMS Immediate Jeopardy and your response strategy. In our next article, we’ll discuss how best to prepare for your CMS resurvey.

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