Survey & Certification Letters

• Details for title: Advanced Copy- Revisions to State Operations Manual (SOM) Hospital Appendix A

  

• Quality and Certification Oversight Reports (QCOR) Website Launch

  

• Termination Notices Available via the Survey & Certification Website

  

• Infection Control: Clarification of Hepatitis C (HCV) Screening Exception

  

• Advanced Copy- Appendix Z, Emergency Preparedness Final Rule Interpretive Guidelines and Survey Procedures

  

• End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Facilities: Filling Saline Syringes at the Patient Treatment Station

  

• End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Facilities: Cleaning the Patient Station

  

• Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Appendix W Revisions

  

• Notification of Final Rule Published- Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities

  

• Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Clearance

  

• Infection Control Pilot: 2017 Update

  

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 to FY 2017 Nursing Home Action Plan

  

• DRAFT Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) 3.0 Users Manual, Version 1.14, Release

  

• Solid Transplant Programs - Outcome Thresholds - Revised Guidelines

  

• Approval of The Institute for Medical Qualitys (IMQs) Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Accreditation Program

  

• Notification of Final Rule Published: Adoption of 2012 Life Safety and Health Care Facilities Code

  

• Guidance to Surveyors on Federal Requirements for Providing Services to Justice Involved Individuals

  

• Policy Clarification on Acceptable Control Materials Used when Quality Control (QC) is Performed in Laboratories

  

• Computed Tomography (CT) Compliance Clarifications under Section 218(a)(1) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA)- Information Only

  

• Affordable Care Act Section 6103: Guidance for State Consumer Oriented Websites- Update to Survey and Certification Letter 11-41-NHs