I sought advice from SFC Lynch on regular basis, as a Staff Sergeant at the time I looked up to him and learned quite a bit from him. Yet, none of the guidance and mentoring that he did with me was never mentioned in the NCOER. As an example SFC Lynch helped me rewrite the company’s Army Body Composition Program SOP. There was no mention of this in his NCOER, and I even gave that information to the 1SG on numerous occasions throughout the entire process. It seemed to me that anytime I mentioned SFC Lynch’s name to 1SG Charter there was always some tension. When I would bring up recommendations based on SFC Lynch’s guidance it was immediately dismissed with a comment like “SFC Lynch’s by the book approach isn’t always correct.” From my
On January 12, 1974, the federal government enacted its initial Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) in response to the prevention of child abuse and neglect incidents. The Act expanded and refined as it undergone several amendments through time. In 2010 the latest CAPTA was re-authorized incorporating several aspects of child prevention and repose to abuse and neglect. According to this act in 2008 states identified an estimated 772,000 children as survivors of child abuse and neglect. CAPTA provides a grant to the State and local public and private agencies and community-based organizations to carry out various programs. The new CAPTA state grant eligibility requirement mandates healthcare providers making identification
The purpose of this assignment is to review the factual content of and critically reflect upon the legal compliance considerations of eight major areas including, the Joint Commission, HIPAA/HITECH, Health Finances, Revenue Cycles, Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors, OIG work plan, OIG Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA), the False Claims Act, and compliance and Provider Self Disclosure Protocol. These key elements have been provided by the GRC software Compliance 360 webpage.
The ACA team expresses its appreciation to MCSO, its facilities staff, and CCS for the opportunity to conduct this compliance review in assuring that health services delivery was adequate. The team hopes that this report will be of great value to MCSO, CCS, its staff, and benefit the inmate population in MCSO custody. The team believes that this report will lead to the continuous provision of quality health care services for the jail population in MCSO facilities.
After reviewing the Office of Inspector General (OIG) Supplemental Compliance Guidelines for Hospitals I have found that there is great purpose for a compliance document in a healthcare facility. The purpose of this document in a healthcare facility is to be able to act as a guideline for healthcare facilities to consider, develop, and implement a compliance plan that meets federal regulations. Healthcare facilities have these compliance documents to help to cover and verify all that all services ordered for a patient were reasonable and necessary services for the patient to be treated accordingly and without fail. These compliance documents need to be retained to reflect that the healthcare facility’s efforts comply with Federal health care
WFR facilitated a Second Step hearing at Comanche Station concerning overtime rules that are in violation of the overtime rules written in the collective bargaining agreement. The issue has been submitted to the overtime committee to rewrite the rules. If the parties come to impasse, the issue will be forwarded to the Joint Labor Relations
The NHRA sets the regulations for the use of retraints, in addition to these stated requirements the NHRA calls for an assessment of problematic behaviors, physician concurrence prior to the institution of restraints, use of restraints as a last resort, and explaining the restraints and why it is being used on the resident. The use of restraints is regulated by the NHRA and the practice is discouraged, however a majority of nursing home residents will be subjected to the use of them.
CM reiterates the shelter rule and regulation and client must adhere to the shelter rule and regulation and to 10pm curfew.
The following day, SFC Collins came into our office and formally introduced himself. It quickly became apparent to me that he was not like any of the other leaders I had encountered up to this point in my career. The first thing that struck me was how genuine he was and that he truly seemed to care about our section not just as soldiers, but as people. He knew the events that had led up to his becoming our new NCOIC, but showed no indication that it had affected or influenced his judgment of who we were or how we operated. After the initial orientation, he started asking about our counselings and began building our team foundation from there. By the end of that first meeting, I already knew he was honest, fair, competent and above all, a true leader.
Earlier in the day, Candee met with her supervisor, Effie Mogul, to address her absence from her desk, which Effie was informed by staff was for over 30 minutes (from approximately 8:45 am to past 9:15 am). During their meeting, Effie agreed to allow Candee to make-up the time. Candee felt that the duration should be no more than 20 minutes; Candee also felt that because she was speaking to a co-worker in the building’s lobby there should be no lost time, so Candee and Effie came to my office to discuss both arguments in further detail.
2/8 4-5pm this worker went for a parent/child and home visit in the home of Kevin Gates. Everyone was at first sitting living room. Lamyia gave the children pictures of herself. Lamyia sat on the couch hugging and kissing Terrance and Tamyia. Tamyia had done her hooked on phonics. Mr Gates reported that Terrance had done 75% better that day at school. Terrance reported to this worker that he was safe, but he wanted to return home. Mr gates reported that he told Terrance's teacher that she would have to pick battles with Terrance. Mr gates reported that Tyren was having difficulties in school. This worker mentioned that lamyia reported Tyren had an IEP. Mr gates stated he would understand Tyren having an IEP because he was having difficulties with his spelling words and they were basic words. This worker would check with the prior school. Mr gates spoke about 8:30 bed time but Terrance cried himself to sleep at night. Tyren at times plays off his brothers behaviors. This worker informed Mr gates that this worker would be picking the children up the following week to take them for testing. This worker spoke with mr gates about coming out for a home visit on the 25th.
My first disturbing encounter with SFC Wilson was in November 2016, we were housed in lodging across from one another and he made the remark that I should make sure my door is secure and rattled off my key door lock number. After that incident, I shoved the sofa that was in my room up against the door every night until I moved to permanent housing. I was very relieved that I would be away from him so that I could sleep better at night. The second incident was during the first course of the 42A30, SFC Wilson introduced himself to the instructors and made it known to them that he did not know what he was doing and he would need assistance from all of us. He would ask my opinion about issues or situations that he was assisting in creating
The Joint Commission is currently the leader in creating and implementing the greatest standards for safety and quality in health care delivery and organizational performance evaluation. Currently, a majority of healthcare organizations use the standards developed by the JC as a guide for how to manage care and improve quality and safety standards. Due to this reputation, the Joint Commission is the only accrediting establishment with the abilities to appraise healthcare organizations. Accreditation is an acknowledgement of proficiency and compliance that can be given to an entire healthcare organization. This includes nursing homes, hospitals, home healthcare providers, and outpatient surgery establishments. Certification on the other hand
Quality Improvement (QI) is an organizational approach that leads to the quality of patient care and services through use of specific set of guidelines, principles, and methodology. This is so that there is assurance that quality care is provided for every patient. Principles of quality improvement focus on measurements. These measurements involve data collection used to improve the quality of care, and patient outcomes. Any good quality improvement program ensures strengthening the systems through analyzes and processes.
These services help strengthen the family system and assist all members in developing the skills to support the recovery of the adolescent (p. 3).
Shared governance is important to compliance in order to keep all staff accountable for compliance measures. Shared governance is an organizational model that gives all management and staff control over their actions and practices and extends the influence of administrative areas (Hess, 2004). Giving all managers a voice can help improve governance compliance and operations by promoting teamwork and accountability among staff throughout the entire organization.