Emergency Preparedness Regulatory - Is Your Facility Prepared for the Next Emergency?
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Overview: Many hospitals, CAH and long term care facilities have become weary from the emphasis on emergency preparedness over the last five years. However just around the corner, is your organization prepared for your next emergency whether it be a cyberattack on your EHR or your email system or an infectious disease outbreak? Have you maintained your vigilance in your preparation activities? CMS has updated their regulations and interpretative guidelines numerous times since the original regulations were published in 2016. Are you compliant with the updated expectations? This presentation will discuss current regulations and the most recently updated interpretative guidelines including required policies, procedures, training and exercises.
Objectives:
- Describe basic policies and procedures to comply with the regulations and interpretative guidelines.
- Describe the latest updates to CMS’ emergency preparedness interpretative guidelines.
- Discuss commonly cited emergency preparedness deficiencies.
- Discuss required training and exercises.
Audience: Hospital & SNF
Nancy Ruzicka, B.S., RPh, MBA, MJ, CHC is a recognized expert on state and federal rules, regulations and interpretative guidelines. She is the owner of Ruzicka Healthcare Consulting and provides consultation to individual client hospitals, nursing facilities, rural health clinics, physician offices and other Medicare certified healthcare providers through both onsite mock surveys, remote consultation and interpretation of Medicare Conditions of Participation. She also provides education on federal regulations, throughout the nation to multiple state hospital associations including South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organization, Iowa Hospital Association, Minnesota Hospital Association, Illinois Health and Hospital Association, Missouri Hospital Association, Texas Hospital Association, and others.
Previously Nancy worked as Director of Integrity and Compliance and Privacy Official at Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines and Director of Regulatory Compliance at UnityPoint Health, Des Moines. She also has more than 20 years of experience working for the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (Medicare state survey agency) While working for the State of Iowa, she worked as a surveyor, program manager/supervisor, and assistant Division Administrator.
Nancy holds master’s degrees in health law and business administration and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, all from Drake University. She is certified in health care compliance and maintains her Iowa pharmacy license.