If your policies and procedures lack clarity and conciseness, you may be inadvertently fostering chaos, increasing regulatory risk, compromising patient safety, and failing to provide essential support to frontline healthcare staff. Discrepancies between policy expectations and actual practices are a primary cause of regulatory citations. Most deficiencies cited by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and state agencies begin with references to hospital policy, followed by numerous examples of non-compliance. Yet, many hospitals continue to develop unnecessarily complex, unrealistic, and redundant policies that fail to guide real-world practice or enhance compliance.
Join SDAHO for an informative webinar with Chartis Health on Thursday, October 31. Discover how to develop clear, concise, and compliant guidance documents that prioritize safety while eliminating impractical expectations and ensuring adherence to all regulatory and accreditation standards.
This webinar will cover key opportunities for optimizing policy and oversight, including how to:
- Ensure changes to guidance documents align with applicable requirements, evidence-based practices, and operational efficiency.
- Prevent departmental or unit procedures from establishing inconsistent standards of care.
- Consistently implement important changes in expectations at the point of care.
Click here to register. This webinar is complimentary for SDAHO members.
