Survey & Certification Letters

• Zika Virus Tests

  

• State Operations Manual (SOM) Surveyor Guidance Revisions Related to Psychosocial Harm in Nursing Homes

  

• Release of 2015 Nursing Home Data Compendium

  

• Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) - Implementation of required electronic submission of Staffing Data for Long Term Care (LTC) Facilities

  

• Exit Conferences-Sharing Specific Regulatory References or Tags

  

• National Downtime of the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES)

  

• Advance Copy – Interpretive Guidelines for the Organ Transplant Conditions of Participation (CoPs) at 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) §§ 482.68 through 482.104

  

• Certification Number (CCN) State Codes –State Operations Manual (SOM) Section 2779A Revisions

  

• Personnel Policies for Individuals Directing or Performing Non-waived Tests

  

• Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Recertification Checklist for Evaluation of Compliance with the Location and Distance Requirements

  

• FY 2015 Report to Congress (RTC): Review of Medicare’s Program Oversight of Accrediting Organizations (AOs) and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Validation Program

  

• Infection Control Courses

  

• Infection Control Pilot Project

  

• Focused Dementia Care Survey Tools

  

• Release of Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Core Survey Data Worksheet

  

• Advanced Notification: Revisions to State Operations Manual (SOM), Appendix C – Survey Procedures and Interpretive Guidelines for Laboratories and Laboratory Services

  

• Revised Hospital Guidance for Pharmaceutical Services and Expanded Guidance Related to Compounding of Medications

  

• Rural Health Clinic (RHC) Location Determination Guidance Updated

  

• Information for Clinical Laboratories Concerning Possible Ebola Virus Disease

  

• Nationwide Expansion of Minimum Data Set (MDS) Focused Survey Background