Pharmacy Conditions of Participation — Virtual Event

Audience

compliance officers and legal counsel, nurse leaders, patient safety employees, performance improvement personnel, pharmacists, physicians, risk management staff

The following program content was provided by the speaker.

Overview

Medicine errors account for the largest number of medical errors in health care. They’re also the most-common reason for unnecessary hospital readmissions. For the first time, CMS mentions that nursing needs to be aware of the pharmacy standards. This includes medicine errors, adverse events, drug incompatibilities, self‐administered medicine and required medicine policies. This program reviews the pharmaceutical services condition of participation, along with other regulatory areas that require pharmacist input and participation, such as antibiotic stewardships, medicine administration timing policies, medicine self-administration and standing orders.

Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

describe CMS requirements for pharmaceutical services
describe minimum security requirements
explain the basic required policies and procedure
explain patient safety measures for medicine

Speaker

Nancy Ruzicka is a consultant on state and federal rules, regulations and interpretative guidelines. Ruzicka previously worked as director of integrity and compliance and privacy official at MercyOne Des Moines and director of regulatory compliance at UnityPoint Health-Des Moines. She also has more than 20 years of experience with the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals. Ruzicka holds master’s degrees in health law and business administration and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, all from Drake University. She is certified in health care compliance and maintains her Iowa pharmacy license.

General Information

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Cancellation/Refund Policy

For cancellations received in writing before the established deadline date, the registrant will receive a full refund — minus a $50* processing fee per registrant. After the deadline date, no refunds will be granted. Registrants not in attendance will be responsible for the full registration fee. Substitutions are encouraged. We reserve the right to cancel this program because of insufficient registration.

*Unless otherwise specified in the program details.

This educational activity is provided by MHA Health Institute in collaboration with the Iowa Hospital Association.

General Information

Session recordings and available resources will be sent to participants after the event takes place.

Cost

$225 per person for MHA members
$325 per person for nonmembers

This virtual event is eligible for use of the MHA Health Institute coupon. Note: Coupons were mailed to MHA member hospital CEOs in December 2023.

This event also is being offered at a reduced registration fee to MHA-member hospitals thanks to a generous contribution from the MHA Management Services Corporation.