Mastering the CMS Hospital infection control survey : the comprehensive guide to compliance with the final CMS worksheet / editorial director Lee Landenberger, executive editor Gary Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landenberger, Lee, editor.

Evans, Gary, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cross infection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : AHC Media, 2015.

Summary:

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized and implemented their long-anticipated, revised infection control survey. It is critical that hospitals know and understand the CMS Infection Control Conditions of Participation and how they will be surveyed so they can be in compliance, avoid citations and financial penalties. CMS inspections are typically unannounced and surveyors will follow standard procedures and citation instructions when non-compliance is identified. Mastering the CMS Hospital Infection Control Survey, a new book from AHC Media, provides comprehensive guidance for hospital staff responsible for infection control compliance. It provides compliance tips and insights from experts plus background articles and case studies on the top areas of CMS interest. It covers a wide array of infection control measures in the hospital including: hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, reprocessing, patient isolation measures, injection safety and antibiotic stewardship.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface: A new regulatory era begins in infection prevention as CMS issues landmark hospital survey

CMS: IPs must be qualified, have training, experience or certification

Introduction: CMS and CDC survey collaboration may be a great gift to patient safety

Chapter I: CMS and Infection Prevention: Ebola Exposed Lack of Resources and Surge Capacity

Compliance Tips and Points of Interest

CDC HAI report: Hard-won gains fall short of 'ambitious' targets

CMS hits hospitals for high rates of infections , 724 facilities penalized

'Passive payer' no more: CMS regs hitting hospital budgets

CMS doc outlines HAI efforts

Inconvenient truth: There is profit in some infections

Feds reset HAI baseline, challenge IPs to prevent more infections

CDC: 1 of every 9 infected pt dies

APIC: Ebola response may leave patients at risk for other infections

Q&A: The passion of Denise Murphy

The battler: An indomitable spirit beats back the devil of CRE infection

Change culture, protect patients using 'positive deviance' approach

TJC seeks 'high reliability' patient safety in project with SC hospitals

Chapter II: Antibiotic Stewardship: Prepare Now for New CMS Regulations

Presidential order pushes CMS to regulate antibiotic stewardship

Pres panel calls for CMS drug regs in long term care

Antibiotic stewardship reduces pediatric patients' length of stay

CDC looking to CMS to add 'teeth' to drug stewardship guidelines

AHA's antimicrobial stewardship toolkit expands on best practices

Antibiotic stewardship as a weapon against Clostridium difficle

Shutting down flow of antibiotics stops C. diff

Live and live: Trying to 'kill the bug' only spurs more antibiotic resistance

Reservoir bugs: CRE in long term acute care hospitals could spread.

CDC recommendations for facilities, clinicians to prevent CRE spread

A bug in Brazil: Is VRSA back with a vengeance?

Chapter III: CMS and the Health Care Worker: Employee Health = Patient Safety

CMS now publicly reporting healthcare worker flu vaccination rates

Ebola outbreak underscores weakness in worker safety

Push for HCW vaccine mandates goes beyond flu

A cautionary tale: Why you should 'think TB'

Only 1 HCW occupationally infected with HIV in last 15 years

HCV can be cured, better to prevent

No viral load, no HCV restrictions

CDC: No evidence for Tdap booster

Progress stalled out on needlestick prevention as rates level off

New system for tracking needlesticks

CDC: Test workers for HBV immunity

HCW pertussis vaccination lags

Measles, mumps roar back as MMR vaccine shunned

Chapter IV: CMS Basic Elements: From and Hygiene to Reprocessing

Hospital has high compliance with hand hygiene technology

A modest proposal: Is it time to ban handshakes in healthcare?

Sometimes you have to be the 'bad cop'

Trail of tears: Fired drug diverting HCWs free to find another hospital

Cleaning, disinfecting hospital environment becoming a top priority

Wipeout: C. diff team cuts rates 40%

FDA: Inform patients of risk of CRE infections linked to endoscopes

CDC, ECRI Institute create culturing protocols for scopes linked to CRE

Chapter V: CMS Patient Tracers: CAUTIs Cloud CLABSI Success Story

Stop CAUTI program aims for 25% cut in hospitals

New Jersey hospital achieves zero CAUTI rate on unit

Revised CAUTI guidelines include behavioral changes

CAUTIs: Unproven practices not routinely recommended

CUSP approach cuts CLABSIs by 40%

Non-ventilator pneumonias comprise 22% of infections

APIC tips for patients to prevent hospital-onset pneumonia

CLABSI intervention whaps VAP.

IPs should enforce mask use during spinal shots

Chapter VI: CMS Patient Tracers on Point-of-Care Devices, Isolation and Surgery

IPs adopt comprehensive policy for glucometers

CDC recommendations for glucose, insulin monitoring

MDRO pts may not be in isolation

Getting patients in isolation and keeping them there

CDC adds respirators, clarifies droplet, aerosol, airborne spread

CDC Q&A: What is the difference between airborne and droplet

Respirator or mask? Occupational health nurses have the answer

New SSI guidelines: Making perfect the enemy of good?

Much more could be done to prevent surgical site infections

Collaborating hospitals reduce colorectal surgical site infections

The horror: CJD exposed patients wait and wonder

Appendix: CMS Infection Control Survey for Hospitals.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 27, 2017).

ISBN:

1-941481-20-5

OCLC:

1014423573