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News Headlines
CMS to providers: Prep for 2019-nCoV, stay CLIA compliant

Are you ready for newest of the emerging diseases? CMS is watching
Novel Coronavirus: What Clinicians Should Know

Clinical insights about the new coronavirus outbreak that started in China.
 

Newsletter Articles
CMS updates its surveyors’ manual for the first time in over a year

CMS is revising its State Operations Manual (SOM) for hospitals in one of the first significant overhauls in more than a year. But be aware that the changes are not fully online yet and more revisions are to come.
ECRI: 2020 health tech hazards

In its annual publication of the top 10 health technology hazards facing healthcare, the ECRI Institute lists the top five to be aware of in 2020:
CMS eliminates 2nd survey for psychiatric hospitals, to merge B-tags into SOMA

CMS announced it is combining the interpretive guidelines that its surveyors use for psychiatric hospitals into the main Appendix A for hospitals, eliminating the need for double survey visits.
Soap vs. superbugs

Bathe patients with chlorhexidine soap to stop drug-resistant infections
 

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