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The CMS Hospital Infection Control Worksheet and Proposed Changes and Antibiotic Stewardship Program
- 49 page final hospital infection control worksheet
- Proposed changes in 2017
- Antibiotic stewardship program
- IP qualified
- Many proposed changes
- Infection preventionist identified and qualified
- Infection control program and resources
- Infection control policies required (many)
- Follows national recognized standards (CDC, APIC, etc.)
- CDC Vaccine storage memo
- PI process
- CDC Vaccines Storage and Handling
- ISMP IV Push guidelines
- HAI reported thru PI
- Training program and must include problems identified
- Leadership involvement
- Systems to prevent MDRO and correct antibiotic usage; stewardship
- Antibiotic orders include indications for use
- Prompt for clinicians to review
- Log of incidents rescinded
- CAUTI, VAP, SSI, MRSA, D-DIFF, CLABSI are identified and new tracers on HAI
- Process to identify present on admission or POA
- HCP competency assessments
- Identify and report and control infections
- MDRO and contact precautions
- Module on hand hygiene
- Infection prevention systems and training
- Injection practices and sharps safety
- Environmental cleaning and disinfection
- Disinfectants used correctly
- High touch environmental surfaces
- Reusable noncritical items (BP cuffs, pulse ox probes)
- Single use devices
- Laundry requirements
- Policies and procedures required
- Point of care devices (blood glucose monitors and INR monitors)
- Sharps
- Reprocessing non critical items
- Single use devices
- Urinary catheter tracer
- Central venous catheter tracer
- Protective environment (bone marrow patients)
- Isolation contact precautions information provided but not covered
- Isolation droplet precautions
- Isolation airborne precautions
- Critical care module
- Hand hygiene, sharps safety, injection safety, personal protection equipment, etc.
- Ventilator/respiratory therapy tracer
- Spinal injection practices
- Invasive procedure module
- Infection control in the Operating Room
- Hydrotherapy equipment
- Infection control tool
- Infection control questions to ask
- Questions for employee health nurse in worksheet three
- Questions for director of education in worksheet one
Overview of the webinar
If there is one webinar your hospital should listen to this year it would be this one. If a surveyor showed up at your door tomorrow would you be prepared? The worksheet is used for all validation surveys and certification surveys. You could also read the infection control standards and you would be surprised that many things in the worksheet are not discussed in the standards because CMS requires hospitals to follow all standards of care and standards of practice which include evidence based practice.
This program will also discuss the proposed infection control standards. This includes a requirement to have an antibiotic stewardship program. The infection preventionist would have to be appointed by the board after approval by the CNO and Medical Executive Committee. There are many additional changes that will be discussed.
This webinar will discuss important memos on infection control issues from CMS. It will discuss the ISMP IV guidelines and safe injection practices issues. It will the CDC vaccine storage and handling toolkit and the CDC procedures for cleaning and disinfecting reusable medical devices.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the surveyor worksheet for assessing compliance with the infection control Conditions of Participation (CoPs). The worksheets are used by State and Federal surveyors when assessing compliance with the infection control standards. Infection control is hit hard during the survey and every hospital should have a working familiarity with this important document. This is the first time CMS has ever had tracers. Hospitals should develop tracer tools to match this worksheet. Accreditation organizations may also ask similar questions since all four must apply for deemed status from CMS.
There is also a business case for stepping up enforcement to prevent healthcare associated infections. The Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program is in effect for 2017. As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Hospitals that rank in the quartile of hospitals with the highest total HAC scores will have had their CMS payments reduced by 1%.
Citation instructions are provided on the infection control worksheet. Surveyors will follow standard procedures when non-compliance is identified. CMS is now publishing the infection control deficiencies and this will be discussed along with actual information on why hospitals were found to be out of compliance. Although the worksheet is not being used per se at Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), it is highly recommended that all CAH should listen to this webinar since the standards are similar and this is an excellent self assessment tool.
Who should attend?
- Infection Control Nurse or Coordinator (infection control professionals, now called infection preventionists by APIC and CMS)
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Medical Officer
- Nurse Educator
- Hospital Epidemiologists
- Infection Control Committee
- All Nurses and Nurse Managers
- PI Director
- Joint Commission Coordinator
- All Nursing Supervisors and Department Directors
- Anesthesiologist and CRNAs
- Chief Medical Officers and Physicians
- Risk Manager
- Senior Leadership
- Pharmacists
- Board Members
- Lab Director
- Patient Safety Officer
- Compliance Officer
- Dietician
- Physicians and Chief Medical Officer
- Maintenance Director and Staff
- Housekeeping (Environmental Services)
- OR Manager and OR Staff
- All Department Directors
- Anyone with Direct Patient Care
- Anyone interested or responsible for infection control
Why should you attend?
- Discuss that CMS has a final infection control worksheet
- Recall that the infection control worksheet has a tracer on indwelling urinary catheters
- Describe what CMS requires for safe injection practices and sharps safety
- Recall that the infection control worksheet has a section on hand hygiene tracer
Faculty - Ms.Sue Dill Calloway
Sue Dill Calloway, R.N., M.S.N, J.D. is a nurse attorney and President of Patient Safety and Healthcare Consulting and Education. She is also the past Chief Learning Officer for the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation and a board member. She was a director for risk management and patient safety for five years for the Doctors Company. She was the past VP of Legal Services at a community hospital in addition to being the Privacy Officer and the Compliance Officer. She worked for over 8 years as the Director of Risk Management and Health Policy for the Ohio Hospital Association. She was also the immediate past director of hospital patient safety and risk management for The Doctors Insurance Company in Columbus area for five years. She does frequent lectures on legal, patient safety, and risk management issues and writes numerous publications.
Sue has been a medico-legal consultant for over 30 years. She has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other healthcare providers on topics such as nursing law, ethics and nursing, malpractice prevention, HIPAA medical record confidentiality, emergency department patient safety and risk, EMTALA anti-dumping law, Joint Commission issues, CMS issues, documentation, medication errors, medical errors, documentation, pain management, federal laws for nursing, sentinel events, MRI Safety, Legal Issues in Surgery, patient safety and other similar topics. She is a leading expert in the country on CMS hospital CoPs issues and does over 250 educational programs per year. She was the first one in the country to be a certified professional in CMS. She also teaches the course for the CMS certification program.