Comments on: We’re From The Government, We’re Here To Help …

By: Hueydoc

Hueydoc — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:59:38 +0000

CMS and Jcah are Federal so it doesn’t matter …

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:40:58 +0000

I’ll put up some pictures later this week. She’s a little pistol, though.

By: doc99

doc99 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:01:05 +0000

Who’s the governor of Texas again? Hmmmmmmm

By: Hueydoc

Hueydoc — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:39:52 +0000

It’s all about the government justifying their job.
Like OSHA, they will NEVER find nothing wrong with an inspection. Instead, they will find some terrible exaggerated problem and then proclaim to the public how they saved their lives- and their own jobs.

By: D'Vorah, RN

D'Vorah, RN — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:23:46 +0000

When my hospital was under the CMS survey guns, we were spanked for not having our individually-wrapped herbal tea bags separate from one another (touching each other GASP! the horror!) and neither the teas nor the salt and pepper had any expiration date noted. And you all know how fast salt spoils!

Yeah, I’m less impressed by CMS than I am by the JC, and I didn’t think such a thing was possible before our audit.

By: landlockedtxn

landlockedtxn — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:09:06 +0000

check out wfaa.com for the details or the dallas news website…www.dmn.com Some of the requirements are definitely, how do I say this, unique?

By: Canuck

Canuck — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:09:45 +0000

The trigger event I could buy – a never event, albeit with the power of hindsight

The other two citations are insane : no ER in the world could function according to those standards.

CMS are nutso if they think they’re being helpful, or doing anything useful…

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience”. ~ C.S. Lewis

By: landlockedtxn

landlockedtxn — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:16:39 +0000

I live about an hour north of Parkland…all of our major traumas go there… For trauma, it most generally cannot be beaten…Google the Dallas Morning News for Parkland related issues. The “issue” will probably be there…One of the biggest factors is a Parkland employee went in to have a routine knee surgery, apparently not a major procedure, and ended up losing her leg apparently r/t the fact her doctor did not do the surgery, and the resident was not skilled to handle the procedure, and the complications which arose from said procedure.

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:02:45 +0000

“Shannon said examples violations of infection prevention included staff touching a patient and then touching a surface that other people would come into contact with.”

http://crasspollination.blogspot.com/2007/07/todays-wtf-moment.html

I guess I know where this guy (Dr. Bloody Gloves) got a job after he was fired…

By: cami

cami — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:20:06 +0000

But on to the important issue: Where is the current picture of your father’s day present?