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2025 Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation

Webinar  
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - Tuesday, February 04, 2025   iCalendar Eastern Standard Time

This educational activity is provided jointly by AXIS Medical Education and North Carolina Healthcare Association in cooperation with the Georgia Hospital Association

This four-part webinar series will cover the entire Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Conditions of Participation (CoP) manual from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This program offers an excellent opportunity to educate everyone in your hospital on all the CMS manual sections, especially ones that apply to their department. Attendees will learn how to do a gap analysis to increase compliance and we will discuss common areas of deficiency. The fifth session will also delve more deeply into the Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement (QAPI) worksheet and program requirements.

Target Audience:   Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Compliance Officer, Emergency Department Personnel, Joint Commission Coordinator, Medical Records, Quality Improvement personnel, Risk Manager, Legal Counsel.

Registration Details:
Register your team and share the Zoom registration links included in your email confirmation. NOTE: If these links are shared outside of your facility additional registration fees will be charged.

$700 - 4 Part Series, Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation 
Registration fee includes CEs and access to the webinar recordings for 60 days post session. Individuals must register at the shared zoom registration links using their work email address to avoid additional fees.

 

Webinar  

Description:

Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) must comply with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) located in AppendixW of the CoPs manual. This four-part webinar series will cover the CAH CoPs manual as well as the regulations and interpretive guidelines that serve as the basis for determining compliance.

 

There were multiple changes and new regulations for CAHs in 2020, including a change to all tag numbers in the manual. Many of the new tag numbers do not include interpretive guidelines or survey procedures. Other changes included 25 new tag numbers in infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship and 10 new tag numbers in QAPI. The regulations for SwingBed changes are limited to Appendix W, but the interpretive guidelines and survey procedures are in Appendix PP.

 

This series will supplement efforts to comply with challenging areas,including nursing care plans, necessary policies and procedures, medication carts and drug storage, informed consent, and medication administration. Finally, attendees will learn what to do when a surveyor arrives at their facilities.