Infection Control Consulting Services (ICCS) Founder Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC, is featured in a new Infection Control Today column about Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) surveys.
The title of the piece is "CMS Surveys: A Primer for the Infection Preventionist."
In the article, Phenelle provides background information on the CMS survey process. She also discusses some of the most common infection prevention and control CMS survey deficiencies.
To access the ICT column, click here.
Infection Control Consulting Services President Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC, has contributed a column to the June issue of Outpatient Surgery Magazine.
The title of the piece is "Where to Focus Your Infection Prevention Efforts." In it, Phenelle discusses five areas surgical facilities should focus on to improve their infection prevention efforts.
These areas are as follows:
To read the column, click here (free account may be required for access).
For assistance with outpatient surgery infection prevention, including survey preparation, risk assessment, education, onboarding and plans of correction contact ICCS.
ICCS has published a new special report that identifies infection prevention requirement and standard violations in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) as witnessed during recent ASC visits by Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC, President of ICCS.
The type of ASC infection prevention violations are broken down into three areas of
Read the ICCS special report on ASC infection violations.
ICCS has published a new special report that discusses survey citations by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pertaining to infection prevention.
The report is titled "Top 5 Infection Prevention-Related CMS Survey Citations."
Topics covered include:
Access the ICCS special report on CMS infection citations.
Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC, president of Infection Control Consulting Services (ICCS), will present a pre-meeting workshop for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) at ASCA 2016.
Phenelle's workshop is on "The Role of Infection Prevention and Control in an ASC QAPI Program." It will be held on Thursday, May 19, from 1:00-4:30 p.m.
ASCA 2016, the annual meeting of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA), is taking place May 19-22, at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Dallas, Texas.
The description of Phenelle's pre-meeting session is as follows:
Recent changes adopted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the ASC accrediting bodies now require ASCs to integrate their infection prevention and control programs into their Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs while maintaining a separate set of indicators.
Discuss the recent and emerging federal requirements and the role that infection prevention and control plays in QAPI. Get an in-depth review of this entire operational area, including risk assessment, quality indicators and measures, surgical site infection surveillance, data collection and processing, influenza vaccination, the emerging antimicrobial stewardship program and the CMS surveyor worksheet changes.
For more information on ASCA 2016, click here. Additional registration is required to attend Phenelle's session.
To arrange a meeting with Phenelle at ASCA 2016 or to learn more about ICCS services for ASCs, which include survey preparation, development of infection prevention risk assessment, preparation of and assistance with corrective plans of action and infection preventionist onboarding, contact us today.