Top Deficiencies in the State for Hospitals
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Event Details
Acute Hospitals across the nation face common challenges, including compliance with federal regulations and accreditation standards. Many of the most frequently cited deficiencies in South Dakota are concentrated in the Conditions of infection prevention, patient rights and nursing. The South Dakota deficiencies reflect nationwide trends in deficiencies found during complaint investigations and general certification surveys. This session will focus on the most problematic deficiencies and the guidelines surveyors utilize to determine compliance
Intended Audience
This program is intended for all hospitals and health systems including general acute hospitals, and anyone involved with hospital operations, accreditation and compliance including but not limited to quality improvement staff, governing board members, chief executive officers, chief medical officers, chief nursing officers, physicians, department directors including pharmacy, dietary, laboratory and radiology, risk managers, compliance officers and legal counsel, regulatory readiness liaisons, safety officers, department directors, and other interested staff.
Learning objectives
• Discuss the most cited deficiencies in acute hospitals
• Explain how hospital staff can keep current with changes in regulations and guidelines
• Discuss potential solutions for prevention of these deficiencies
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 Oficial 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.