Description

This session will cover the top 5 survey deficiencies and how to avoid them. This session will outline those top deficiencies and review the documentation that is REQUIRED in the chart to avoid the deficiency. Best practice for your agency charts, processes, etc. will be detailed so that agencies realize how the surveyor is going to review the elements related to the Conditions of Participation. Key elements that surveyors find deficient in agency records will be outlined and reviewed.

Meet the Speaker:

Victoria Barron, MBA, BSN, RN, COS-C, is a Clinical Consultant for HPS. She provides support and solutions to home health and hospice agencies nationally to achieve regulatory compliance. With more than 37 years of nursing and healthcare experience, the majority of Victoria’s career has been in the home services arena including home health, hospice, home care, and home infusion where she has served in various roles. In home health and hospice, Victoria has served as agency administrator, interim administrator, clinical director, surveyor, mock surveyor, QAPI team member and consultant. In private duty she has served as agency administrator, and in home infusion as marketing director and infusion Registered Nurse. Victoria has led and participated in the start-up of hospice, home care and home infusion agencies and has successfully led teams through the initial Certification and Accreditation process as well as renewals of existing Certification/Accreditations. She is experienced in operations, clinical and billing compliance, data analytics, and process development and implementation. Victoria strives to support agencies achieve regulatory compliance and clinical success to provide quality care to patients across all service lines. Victoria is a licensed Multistate Registered Nurse and is CHAP certified as a Hospice and Home Health Consultant.