HH COPs, Survey Protocols and the Interpretive Guidelines
Hours: 0.75
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, has established minimum health and safety regulations that home health agencies, or HHAs, must comply with. The purpose is to allow HHAs to participate in federal healthcare programs and ensure the delivery of quality and safe healthcare. These regulations are called Conditions of Participation or COPs. Agencies that are Medicare-certified must comply with these CoPs. Surveys are conducted to find out if those agencies are in compliance. You play a role in the outcomes of those survey processes. In this course, you will learn about the home health CoPs. You will also learn about the survey process and your role in that process.
The goal of this course is to teach direct care workers in the home health setting how to help their agency comply with the CoPs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, has established minimum health and safety regulations that home health agencies, or HHAs, must comply with. The purpose is to allow HHAs to participate in federal healthcare programs and ensure the delivery of quality and safe healthcare. These regulations are called Conditions of Participation or COPs. Agencies that are Medicare-certified must comply with these CoPs. Surveys are conducted to find out if those agencies are in compliance. You play a role in the outcomes of those survey processes. In this course, you will learn about the home health CoPs. You will also learn about the survey process and your role in that process. The goal of this course is to teach direct care workers in the home health setting how to help their agency comply with the CoPs.
Florida Board of Nursing - Certified Nursing Assistants
This is not an accredited course for professional license renewal. Florida CNAs may use this inservice toward meeting their annual inservice requirement.
This activity is approved for 0.7000 contact hours.
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Texas HHSC has determined that Relias' submitted training meets or exceeds the minimum standards for HCSSA administrator training in the following categories: Licensed and Certified Home Health. Texas HHSC also recognizes Relias provides continuing education for administrators and alternate administrators. This activity is approved for 0.7500 contact hours.
Describe the Home Health CoPs and survey protocols.
Identify the most commonly cited CoP standards or G-Tags for home health agencies.
Explain how to help prevent CoP deficiencies in home health care.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Home Health CoPs and the Survey Process
Conditions of Participation
CoP Sections
Survey Protocols
Survey Process
Survey Types
Citation Overview
Deficiency Types
Review
Summary
Section 3: Interpretive Guidelines for Frequently Cited G-Tags
Interpretive Guidelines
G446 Patient Has the Right to Be Advised of Contact Info for Agencies
G536 POC Includes Review of Current Medications
G574 Components of Plan of Care
G580 Drugs Treatment Services Administered Only as Ordered by Physician
G590 Promptly Alert Relevant Physician or Provider of Changes
G608 Services Are Coordinated to Meet Patient Needs
G682 Precautions to Prevent Transmission of Infections and Communicable Diseases
G798 Aide Assignment and Duties
Review
Summary
Section 4: The Successful Home Health Survey
Survey Preparation
Utilizing Reports
Accessible Information
Review
Summary
Section 5: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributor
References
Tameka N. Warren, MSN, RN, CLC, earned her Bachelor and Master of Science in Nursing degrees from Indiana University School of Nursing at IUPUI, and her Associate of Science in Nursing from Ivy Tech College. She has over 18 years of nursing experience in public health, regulation, home health, leadership, education, maternal child community health, and long-term care environments. Tameka has served as a leader in home healthcare practices, quality improvement, and education as a community health nurse and a Public Health Nurse Surveyor (Home Health & Hospice) certified by CMS for a State Agency. She has served as a maternal and infant mortality advocate in managing home visiting services, supporting legislation to improve maternal child care in diverse communities, and as an ALPP Certified Lactation Counselor. She has also served as an Adjunct Clinical Professor to further awareness about the importance of community health nursing. Tameka’s passion is to serve the most vulnerable populations affected by health disparities and to inspire a new generation of nurses to do the same successfully.
Disclosure: Tameka N. Warren, MSN, RN, CLC has no Relevant Financial or Non-Financial Relationship with ineligible companies to disclose.
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