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Part One: Tuesday, November 4 (10:00 a.m.-noon) 

Part Two: Thursday, November 6 (10:00 a.m.-noon) 

Laura A. Dixon served as the director of risk management and patient safety for the Colorado Region of Kaiser Permanente. Prior to joining Kaiser, she served as the director, facility patient safety and risk management and operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states.

Dixon has more than 20 years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, peri-operative services, and pain management. Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the director, Western region, patient safety and risk management for The Doctors Company in Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff for the western United States

As a registered nurse and attorney, Dixon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University, RECEP of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a Registered Nurse Diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.

This speaker has no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this presentation.

Rural Health Clinics (RHC) provide important and often difficult-to-find healthcare in rural and remote areas.

This two-part webinar series will cover the Rural Health Clinic Conditions for Certification (CfC) manual and will address the current requirements for certification. 

RHCs must comply with the CMS CfC to receive Medicare and Medicaid payments. The requirements apply to all patients, regardless of payment source. The CMS regulations and interpretive guidelines will also be discussed. Attendees will learn about the Conditions and what to do when a surveyor arrives at your facility.

This seminar will also help RHCs comply with specific Conditions and problem areas, such as supervision, informed consent, medication administration, and emergency preparedness.

At the conclusion of part one in the series, participants should be able to:

• Describe the advantages of Rural Health Clinics to patients
• Recall the requirements a clinic must meet to be certified as Rural Health Clinic
• Discuss the types of CMS surveys and their processes

At the conclusion of part two in the series, participants should be able to:

• Recall the requirements for, and duties of staff types, including physician, PA, NP or CNM.
• Explain that there must be adequate description of services for certification.
• Recall what must be included in the medical record, required elements of informed consent, and necessity to maintain security of medical records.
• Recite the elements of a program’s evaluation.
• Discuss the requirements of an emergency preparedness program.

The Georgia Hospital Association Research & Education Foundation is an approved provider of nursing home administrator credits as a professional trade association in long term care under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 393-13-.02, (1) (a).  Approved for up to 4 contact hours.