OasisLMS

Tuesday, Dec. 16
10 a.m.-noon 

Laura A. Dixon, BS, JD, RN, CPHRM

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.

2025 has presented healthcare providers with changes to federal and state laws, updates to Critical Access Hospital (CAH) regulations, and acute care hospitals interpretative guidelines and survey procedures impacting several areas of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) manual. There were also updates to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) regulations.

This webinar will cover the new interpretive guidelines for acute care hospitals and newly released regulations for Critical Access Hospitals, some of which mirror regulations already present for acute care hospitals. There will also be a brief discussion of the multiple CMS memos that expired or were rescinded this year. Hospitals that accept Medicare and Medicaid payment must comply with these changes for all patients, regardless of the payment source.

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Recall the inclusion of “vulnerable patients” in the patient rights section.
• Describe the new guidelines for unified and integrated QAPI programs for acute and CAHs.
• Discuss the new guidelines for ligature safety in an acute care hospital.
• Explain the new guidelines and regulations for emergency services to include obstetrical emergencies for acute care hospitals and CAHs.
• Recall the updates to the Office of Civil Right conscious objection protections.

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 2 contact hours. 

By attending 2025 CMS CoPs, Regulations and OCR Updates for Acute Hospitals and CAHs Webinar offered by Georgia Hospital Association, participants may earn up to 2 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. Attendees who wish to have the hours applied toward ACHE Qualifying Education credit must self-report their participation by logging into their MyACHE account and selecting ACHE Qualifying Education Credit.