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Massachusetts Announces Settlements with Five Nursing Homes

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Massachusetts’ Attorney General has secured settlements with five Massachusetts nursing homes to resolve allegations of patient neglect, insufficient staff training, and inadequate care for vulnerable nursing home residents. They also failed to report the significant health declines of one resident to a physician.

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Nursing License Verification: Necessary, But Complex

Provider Trust

Some additional nursing facts include: The U.S. government estimates that >200,000 new RN positions will be created each year from 2016 to 2026. Most healthcare services involve some sort of care by nurses including private practices, primary care clinics, home health, nursing homes, hospices, and more.

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USP and Other Hazardous Pharmaceuticals Standards and Regulations: Update 2020

MedTrainer

Another concern involved caregivers in a nursing home that needed to crush up an HD to mix it into a resident’s food or liquid to assist with swallowing the HD. The National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently released an update to the 2016 List of Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings.

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USP and Other Hazardous Pharmaceuticals Standards and Regulations: Update 2020

MedTrainer

Another concern involved caregivers in a nursing home that needed to crush up an HD to mix it into a resident’s food or liquid to assist with swallowing the HD. The National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently released an update to the 2016 List of Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2022 – June

SQA

On 09 May 2022, NMPA released the draft of the revised Regulations for Implementation of the Drug Administration Law (hereafter referred to as the Regulations ) for public comments. The Regulations were first issued with immediate effect in 2002 and were later revised in 2016.

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The Cobra Effect & Enforcing Compliance Standards

AIHC

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers.