Nursing Home And Hospital Surveyors Look For Immediate Jeopardy - Part 2
In the previous post we started talking about Immediate Jeopardy. There are some triggers which, when seen, should clue the hospital and nursing home surveyor or survey team into looking further to see if there is an IJ situation. Although CMS doesn’t consider the triggers to be all inclusive, they are a good starting point. [...]
EMTALA and the Hospital Surveyor
Have you ever gone to a hospital emergency room and then been told you had to go to a different emergency room. Perhaps they told you to sign a paper because you had to go somewhere else because you couldn’t pay their rates and you could get “free care” somewhere else. You may have been [...]