Compass Clinical Consulting Launches Hospital Accreditation and Compliance Resource Site for Healthcare Systems Professionals

CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwire - July 7, 2009) - Compass Clinical Consulting (http://www.compass-clinical.com) has launched the Hospital Accreditation and Compliance resource Web site (http://www.hospital-accreditation.com) for use by hospital and healthcare systems leaders.

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AN INDISPENSABLE, ONLINE RESOURCE

With the mounting number and complexity of hospital regulations, this up-to-date, educational site provides critical information on the standards and survey processes of both The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

IMMEDIATE JEOPARDY

Being out of compliance, or receiving negative survey results, can hurt hospitals financially and operationally. Such performance can even cause a hospital to fall into immediate jeopardy -- a precursor to Medicare decertification and a designation that can quickly cause a financial and public relations crisis.

HOSPITAL RECOVERY

The Hospital Accreditation and Compliance site provides proven tools and guidelines for preventing, mitigating, recovering from and responding to a hospital's requirements for improvement, or even immediate jeopardy. It also outlines the following:

--  Operational impact -- The serious operational implications that occur
    upon failure to address any regulatory findings, including immediate
    jeopardy
--  Quality of care -- How immediate jeopardy can impact clinical
    operations and quality of care
--  Prevention -- Core measures and planning safety initiatives
--  Mitigation -- How to prevent an event from impacting new patients and
    how to empower staff to do whatever it takes to protect patients
--  Response -- How to resolve compliance issues (including immediate
    jeopardy), and take steps to assure they don't recur
    

Ruth Elzer, RN, MS, a nationally recognized speaker and expert on hospital accreditation and compliance, will be the Web site's featured expert and moderator. Ruth is the Practice Leader for Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance at Compass Clinical Consulting and a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

ABOUT

Compass Clinical Consulting has helped hundreds of hospitals and health systems reduce cost, prepare for accreditation, manage clinical resources, improve patient throughput and physician relations. Compass Clinical Consulting also places interim healthcare executives, CNOs, CMOs and clinical managers.

Contact Information: MEDIA CONTACT: Compass Clinical Consulting Steve Kayser (spokesperson) 513-241-0142, ext. 112 email: http://www.compass-clinical.net