It’s natural to look at accreditation survey deficiencies as shortcomings or failures. However, these challenges can serve as opportunities for growth and improvement.
How Survey Deficiencies Can Benefit Your Sleep Facility
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Optimize Sleep Survey Preparations
Preparing for an initial or renewal accreditation survey takes careful planning. ACHC offers a wide range of tools and resources to assist you. There also are a few simple steps you can take to help your organization prepare more efficiently and effectively.
Sleep : Patient Records Must Include Completed Questionnaires
Maintaining accurate records for your sleep patients is essential to ensuring the provision of quality care.
P&Ps Should Address Repeated Polysomnography Testing
Duplicate polysomnography services are rarely medically necessary in consecutive years, according to Medicare fraud investigators and sleep medicine professionals.
Sleep: Preparing for Survey Interviews Can Ease Concerns
Throughout the survey process, your Surveyor will review required documents, assess policies and procedures, and interview key personnel, employees, and contracted individuals who provide direct care on behalf of your sleep facility.
Sleep: Do Your Part for a Successful Survey
Nearly all organizations surveyed for accreditation are cited for deficiencies. To address deficiencies, an organization must develop an effective Plan of Correction (POC) and submit it to ACHC before a final accreditation status is determined. This is the final step in the accreditation survey process.
Sleep: Meeting Plan of Correction Requirements
Nearly all organizations surveyed for accreditation are cited for deficiencies. To address deficiencies, an organization must develop an effective Plan of Correction (POC) and submit it to ACHC before a final accreditation status is determined. This is the final step in the accreditation survey process.
Background Checks Boost Safety Efforts
As a sleep care provider, patients trust you to deliver excellent services in a safe environment. Performing background checks on employees confirms your commitment to ensuring patients receive secure, quality care.
Ensure Patient Records Contain Required Items
Patient medical records are used by sleep facility personnel to monitor and document the plan of care for each patient.
Infection Control in the Sleep Lab, part 2
Everyone who works in a sleep organization has responsibility for preventing and controlling infection. When a surveyor assesses a sleep lab, they will review the policies, then assess staff understanding of the program and seek evidence of effective implementation.