7/15/2020 - The Joint Commission and CMS have started to re-engage with hospitals and other healthcare organizations as communities...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center May 29, 2020 On May 27, 2020, The Joint Commission (TJC)...
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Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 7, 2020 During national or local “disasters” hospitals may face...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 6, 2020 The following is a brief summary of the...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 27, 2020 The following recommendations are culled from CDC and...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 25, 2020 All healthcare personnel understand the risk of COVID-19...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 24, 2020 As part of our COVID-19 blog series, on...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center Amid ongoing concerns regarding the containment of the COVID-19 virus and...
CMS and The Joint Commission recently issued a string of notifications to the healthcare industry in response to the...
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2/13/2020 - Join Greeley experts as we take an in depth look at the new requirements for the recognition...
Avoiding patient harm has been healthcare’s goal from the days of Hippocrates. Yet achieving this goal remains elusive. Despite...
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12/13/2019 - Put recent CMS changes into context with possible changes in the interpretive guidelines process.
11/6/2019 - Review trends and patterns in Joint Commission and CMS survey findings, and outline the best way to...
10/11/2019 - For over 30 years, The Greeley Company has helped hospitals remove the madness surrounding accreditation and regulatory...
Documentation has always been a burden to clinicians, and it has increased exponentially in the last several years with...
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7/24/2019 - This free webinar that will share lessons learned from over 30 years of helping hospitals across the...
What are the Odds of a Medicare Deficiency after a Joint Commission Survey? Your hospital has a 50-50 chance...
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The Greeley Company held a national online seminar covering the top 20 Joint Commission and the top 22 CMS...
This workshop in the Greeley 'Simplify & Comply' Premium Learning series will help you become bulletproof during survey through...
This session of the Greeley 'Simplify & Comply' Premium Learning series discusses common sense solutions for suicide screening, suicide...
12/13/2018 - Steven W. Bryant, President and CEO of The Greeley Company discusses the key to getting clinicians back...
12/6/2018 - Join Greeley regulatory compliance and quality experts for a free webinar. Greeley faculty will share common vulnerabilities...
Greeley Senior Consultant Bud Pate shares advice with Becker’s Clinical Leadership on how to avoid adverse findings, and what to...
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8/23/2018 - In this webinar, Phillip Boaz, RN, MSN, will discuss common regulatory and accreditor survey findings, plus provide...
1/11/2018 - What's your New Year's Resolution? How about getting clinicians back to the bedside? This webinar will cover...
12/19/2017 – This webinar will present an analysis of recent survey findings in Life Safety and the Environment of...
11/2/2017 - This webinar will present an analysis of recent survey findings at psychiatric facilities, as well as a...
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If you have received a CMS Termination Letter, it has been determined that your hospital has a condition-level deficiency....
Long-Term Partnership Enhances Safety Program Efficacy and Compliance A Midwest regional hospital with 350+ beds has been working with The...
Many compliance-related activities that exist in hospitals today are carried out based on the mythological belief that these things...
If your hospital has received a Statement of Deficiencies (CMS Form 2567) with Notice of Immediate Jeopardy or Notice of...
Question: Surveyors have cited us for standards, such as contracted services, and are inconsistent with content of this webinar.......
Question: Should screening for suicidality be documented for all patients or only if certain criteria are met?
Question: Can you go into more detail about what the regulations require for medication storage. In our facility, pharmacy...
Question: Does food storage include staff refrigerators or only refrigerators with patient items?
Question: You said that orders for non-violent restraints no longer need to be renewed every 24 hours?
If hospital survey results during the past year are any indication, 2019 should be a very busy and challenging...
Joint Commission representatives have begun emphasizing the need for an additional “NFPA Time Out” for some surgical cases.
If you are looking to make a change at your hospital to define or revise the way you do...
There are two types of recommendations that can come out of a mock survey: good recommendations and unhelpful recommendations.
If your hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC), your CEO recently received a letter.
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By now everyone should be well aware that two categories of standards rise to the top in the volume...
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How to clarify Don’t get hung up on the clarification format. Sometimes explanations don’t fit well into the Joint...
Rumor has it that the Joint Commission removed the option to clarify survey findings. This rumor is not true....
The Joint Commission has proposed some changes to it’s national patient safety goal for suicide prevention.
A key way to propel our hospital data to the next level of usefulness is to consider where our...
Dan Nielsen, former healthcare executive turned speaker and author, conducted several enlightening interviews at the 2016 Becker’s Hospital Review...
Administrators at a 300-bed tertiary healthcare facility brought in consultants from The Greeley Company to help guide them through...
Recent public statements by CMS representatives have raised questions about the mechanism a hospital should use to authorize/approve temporary...
t should come as no surprise that nine out of the 10 most frequently cited standards during 2014 TJC...
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