The New World of Hospice Surveys in 2023: Updates and Strategies for Success is proudly presented to you by National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Thank you. We hope that you enjoy your course.
Description:
Hospice leaders need to understand more than ever the importance of key survey readiness priorities to avoid CMS survey enforcement remedies and ensure regulatory compliance. This interactive program focuses on changes to the survey process with hospice survey changes as well as top survey issues and the potential for enforcement remedies that will shape surveys for years to come. Specific strategies hospice managers and leaders can implement to demonstrate hospice-wide compliance will be discussed.
Learning Objective 1:
Identify the top survey deficiencies in 2023 and the impact of the new survey changes and enforcement remedies on Hospice providers.
Learning Objective 2:
Discuss the new survey process changes as outlined in the CMS State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix M, including additional probes and survey protocols that will inform a surveyor and potentially impact a hospice's survey outcome.
Learning Objective 3:
Identify strategies that Hospices can utilize to Implement a proactive, agency-wide, ongoing survey readiness program which incorporates these survey changes.
Nursing 1.0 Contact Hours awarded.
Nursing Contact Hours for this module will expire on October 15, 2025.