Year: 2020
Resolution Number: 23
Action Taken: NULL
Status:
Author(s): Jayne E. Courts, MD, FACP
Sponsor: David Whalen, MD, Regional Delegation Chair
On behalf of: Kent County Delegation
Committee: NULL
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with appropriate stakeholders to review the rationale for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities and determine acceptable indicators or markers with better visibility to indicate patients with an increased fall risk or other health care risk concerns; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS work with the appropriate stakeholders to develop and advocate for recommended changes to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities so that discrete, but readily visible, indicators or markers of a patient’s health care risk concerns may be used for the benefit and safety of patients without triggering a citation; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to review the rationale for CMS’s patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities and determine acceptable indicators or markers with better visibility to indicate patients with an increased fall risk or other health care risk concerns; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to change the patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities so that discrete, but readily visible, indicators or markers of a patient’s health care risk concerns may be used for the benefit and safety of patients without triggering a citation.
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with appropriate stakeholders to review the rationale for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities and determine acceptable indicators or markers with better visibility to indicate patients with an increased fall risk or other health care risk concerns; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS work with the appropriate stakeholders to develop and advocate for recommended changes to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities so that discrete, but readily visible, indicators or markers of a patient’s health care risk concerns may be used for the benefit and safety of patients without triggering a citation; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to review the rationale for CMS’s patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities and determine acceptable indicators or markers with better visibility to indicate patients with an increased fall risk or other health care risk concerns; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) ask our AMA to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to change the patient dignity regulations applicable to long-term care facilities so that discrete, but readily visible, indicators or markers of a patient’s health care risk concerns may be used for the benefit and safety of patients without triggering a citation.
Fiscal Note: $25,000+
Resolution: View PDF for Signage Balancing Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Patient Dignity
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