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Public Reporting of Infections and the CLABSI Mandate

Beginning Jan. 1, 2011, the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) will be the tool used by facilities electing to participate in the CMS HAI IPPS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program. ...More
January 17, 2011
Posted in Articles
Survey Readiness Resource Helps ASCs Address Infection Control Practices

Medline Industries, Inc. introduces a new CMS Survey Readiness Program for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). The program helps ASCs in interpreting new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulatory requirements, preparing for the CMS survey and improving ...More
September 9, 2010
Posted in News
Hospitals Making Progress Toward Meeting Infection Reporting Requirements, Survey Finds

Hospitals tasked with meeting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’(CMS) healthcare-associated infection (HAI) reporting requirements are making progress, according to a Premier healthcare alliance survey. By January 2011, as outlined in the FY 2011 final rule, ...More
September 8, 2010
Posted in News
Premier Offers Webcast on New CMS Reporting Requirements

Premier healthcare alliance will host a Webcast, "Using the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to Meet the New CMS Reporting Requirement," on Aug. 25 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. EDT. The event is part of Premier's Advisor Live™ audioconference series, and there is no ...More
August 23, 2010
Posted in News
Discarding Data a Dastardly Deed, Consumer Advocates Assert

By now you may have heard that the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has purged infection data from hospital records dating from 2005 to 2008 because it believed this data was too expensive to maintain and, according to a report from the St. Louis ...More
August 17, 2010
Posted in Blog
Reminding Staff to Remove Catheters Reduces Infections by Half

Researchers found the most common hospital-acquired infection is significantly reduced with simple, low-cost interventions. ...More
August 16, 2010
Posted in News
Research Project to Assess Impact of Non-Payment for Avoidable Infectious Complications

The Preventing Avoidable Infectious Complications by Adjusting Payment (PAICAP), a research project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is being conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. The goal of the ...More
August 9, 2010
Posted in News
APIC Comments on IPPS Changes, Applauds 'Acceleration Toward Transparency'

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) says it is encouraged by the final rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). ...More
August 5, 2010
Posted in News
Reform Law Poised to Make Healthcare Safer, Consumers Union Says

While most of the attention surrounding the landmark healthcare reform measure just signed into law has focused on how it expands access to affordable insurance coverage, it also enacts important initiatives that will improve patient safety, according to Consumers Union, ...More
April 2, 2010
Posted in News
In the Aftermath of 2008 CMS Rule, Hospitals Seek to Prevent Infections, Retain Reimbursement

It has been about 14 months since a new directive from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) went into effect Oct. 1, 2008, essentially declaring that Medicare will no longer reimburse hospitals for extra costs related to certain infections acquired during a ...More
December 18, 2009
Posted in Articles

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