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Arm Yourself With These Infection Surveillance Essentials

Published on Mon Nov 26, 2012

Test your facility's defenses with this checklist from the CDC. Can you affirm your facility's compliance on all counts?

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Long-Term Care Survey Alert

Risk Management:
Prevent an Outbreak of F-441 Citations: Bolster Your Infection Control Program Now

Are you taking these 4 steps to stave off infections -- and survey scrutiny?
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Compliance:
OIG Scrutinizes Hospice-SNF Relationships In The New Year

Plus: Medicare may prorate hospitals' payment for patients transferred to hospice.

The [...]

Did You Know?:
Bone Up on Pets and Infection Control

A study published this year in the
American Journal of Infection Control notes [...]

Quality of Care:
Shore Up Your ADL Care Practices With 4 Key Tactics

Are you missing important signals that residents need added assistance?

Your facility [...]

Tool:
Arm Yourself With These Infection Surveillance Essentials

Test your facility's defenses with this checklist from the CDC. Can you affirm your [...]

Compliance:
Avoid Citations for F314 Pressure Sores With This Guideline Review

Make sure you are following the SOM requirements at §483.25(c).

The Medicare [...]

Clinical Round Up:
Here's Another Reason Why Smoking Is A Health Hazard

Smoking is not simply injurious to health
-- it can impair your memory, [...]

Staffing Strategies:
Supervise Your Supervisor In 4 Simple Steps

"Managing upwards" is not manipulation -- it's cultivating a productive relationship so everyone wins.
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What Do You Think?

The following Q&A was provided courtesy of
Marilyn Mines, RN, BSN, RAC-CT, BC, [...]

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