The final interpretive guidelines we have all waited for are finally out!  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has published 34 pages of interpretive guidelines which will amend the hospital conditions of participations (CoPs) on patient visitation rights and patient representatives for all hospitals including critical access. These new interpretive guidelines explain and supplement information from the federal regulation which became effective January 18, 2011. The interpretive guidelines include changes to informed consent, informed decision making and advance directives.

During this 90-minute webinar, nurse attorney Sue Dill Calloway will go into detail on the final interpretive guidelines, help equip hospitals to understand these changes, and provide tips on how to comply. This program will also cover the new Joint Commission patient centered care standard on visitation which will be included in surveys after January 1, 2012.   

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss what will be required in the final CMS CoP on visitation rights including the requirement to have a written policy and procedure.
• Describe how the new federal regulation on visitation affects all hospitals receiving Medicare reimbursement including critical access hospitals.
• Recall that all hospitals will be required to amend their patient rights statement and notify patients of their visitation rights.
• Describe how patients will have the right to choose who can visit them including same sex partners and friends.
• Explain why hospital staff will need to be educated on the new visitation regulation.
• Discuss why CMS has new regulations and interpretive guidelines on telemedicine.

Target Audience:

• Chief nursing officer
• Consumer advocate
• Ethic committee members
• Compliance officer
• Risk manager
• Joint Commission liaison
• Quality Improvement Coordinator
• Nurse educator
• ICU nurse manager
• Director of Radiology
• Chief risk officer
• Chief operating officer
• Chief medical officer
• Medical staff credentialing staff
• Interpretive services
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Nurse managers
• Nursing supervisors
• Hospital legal counsel
• Patient safety officer
• Policy and procedure committee members
• Anyone else involved in visitation rights of patients, DPOA, and teleinterpretative services and telemedicine.

Level: All levels 

Meet your Expert:

Sue Dill Calloway is a nurse attorney and medical-legal consultant. She has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers. She has spoken internationally on patient safety, risk management, legal, regulatory, and CMS and Joint Commission issues. She has authored over a thousand articles and a hundred books including a book on the Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission, CMS Patient Rights Standards and a book on 2009 Joint Commission Leadership and many books on nursing law and nursing law and ethics.  

Her associate degree is from Central Ohio Technical College and Ohio State University. Her BA, BSN in Nursing, MSN in nursing (summa cum laude) and JD degree (law degree with honors) are from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Participation:

Each listener participates in the continuing education activity by listening to the webinar and completing the online post test and evaluation.

Accreditation Statement:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.5 Contact Hours.

Sponsor:

The sponsor of this educational activity is AHC Media.

Recorded: Friday, December 2, 2011