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CMS Rescinds Focused infection Control Surveys

Published on Fri Feb 11, 2022

Home health and hospice agencies can say goodbye to focused infection control (FIC) surveys. Why? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed the FIC survey and tool at the beginning of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency “to help surveyors and facilities absorb the critical infection prevention and control practices for combating COVID-19,” CMS says in newly updated memo QSO-21-08-NLTC. [...]
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