Objective: To understand hospital deficiencies and compliance issues

Instructions:

After reading this weeks chapters and the assigned article, prepare a signature assignment on hospital deficiencies. Access the Hospitals page of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:

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Scroll down to Related Links and review the available reports.

Create and submit a two- to four-page paper on hospital deficiencies. From the Suggested Deficiencies links provided below, or any updated links listed under Related Links on the CMS site, choose a hospital organization that was out of compliance for something.

Suggested Deficiencies

Be sure to address the following issues in your paper:

1.     What organization oversees this hospital?

2.     Write a paragraph explaining why the hospital was tagged with deficiencies.

3.     Develop an effective compliance plan for this issue to include the components of an effective plan and steps back to compliance.

4.     Add a summary or conclusion.

5.     Use in-text citations and add a corresponding reference list.