The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to the hospital conditions of participation (CoPs), including nursing, history and physicals, infection control, QAPI, and orders for restraint and seclusion. While the effective date for the changes to take place was November 29, 2019, Critical Access Hospitals had until end of March 2021 to implement a QAPI program as those requirements were completely rewritten.

The new rules require all hospitals to have an antibiotic stewardship program, the core elements of which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised in November 2019. A large part of the rule included areas that are already a requirement in the hospital CoPs. This session will cover several existing requirements clarified by CMS along with several finalized federal regulations, making this webinar an excellent resource for all hospital employees.