Did you know medication errors make up the largest number of medical errors in health care today and are the most common reason for unnecessary readmissions to the hospital? According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), drug-related adverse outcomes occur in 1.9 million inpatient stays, or almost 5% of all admissions. Annually 838,000 individuals treated as outpatients have a drug-related adverse event.
If a surveyor showed up at your hospital today, would you be prepared? Are you up to speed with the new antibiotic stewardship requirements and pharmacy’s involvement in the new regulations under the Hospital Improvement Rule that became final on Nov. 29, 2019? CMS rewrote 10 of the 18 hospital pharmacy sections in 2015 and many hospitals are still working toward compliance.
There have also been many recent changes in the nursing section that address medication usage. For the first time, CMS mentions that nursing needs to be aware of some of the pharmacy standards and vice versa, including changes to timing of medication, self-administered medication, compounding, safe opioid use and required medication policies.
This program will review the most challenging pharmacy and medication standards and provide guidance and resources to ensure that your facility or system stays in compliance. It is a must-attend event for any hospital that accepts Medicare or Medicaid.
Learning objectives
At the conclusion of this session, participant should be able to:
- Recall that all hospitals that receive Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement must follow the medication guidelines for all patients
- Discuss that CMS has requirements on BUD and compounding
- Recall that CMS has a number of required pharmacy policies and procedures
- Describe that CMS requires a policy for high-risk drugs such as double-checks or dose limits
Speaker
Sue Dill Calloway, president, Patient Safety and Health Care Education and Consulting
Sue Dill Calloway is president of Patient Safety and Health Care Education and Consulting, where she focuses on medical legal education, especially The Joint Commission and CMS hospital regulatory compliance. She also lectures on legal, risk management and patient safety issues. Previously, Dill Calloway was director for risk management and patient safety for the Doctors Company. She was the vice president of legal services at a community hospital and served as the privacy officer and the compliance officer. She was also a medical malpractice defense attorney for 10 years and has three nursing degrees in addition to a law degree.
She is a well-known lecturer and the first in the country to be a certified professional in CMS. She has written 102 books and thousands of articles.
Who should attend
Anyone involved in the medication process especially pharmacists, physicians, all nurses and nursing supervisors, patient safety and risk management staff, performance improvement personnel, Joint Commission staff, compliance officers and others who participate in the medication process.
Fee
- $200 per session for MHA member hospitals
- $300 per session per organization for nonmembers
In order to allow for social distancing, pricing is set up per hospital rather than per connection. Please register just one person from your facility and have that person share the access information with others within your facility who wish to participate. Each hospital within a system must register separately.
Registration deadline
Please register by 5 p.m. on Aug. 21 to ensure timely delivery of access instructions. Once the deadline has passed, we will no longer be able to accept registrations.
Prior to the program you will receive an email that contains instructions on how to connect to the web conference. Advance registration is required to ensure delivery of instructional materials.
If you do not receive an email from Christy Hammer prior to the program with web conference details, please contact her at chammer@mnhospitals.org to confirm your registration.