February 5, 2018
CMS: Two exercises of emergency operations plan required annually
Editor's Note
The Joint Commission reported on January 31 that it had confirmed with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that organizations are required to have two exercises of their emergency operations plan annually.
Among the organizations to which the requirement applies are:
- deemed hospitals
- critical access hospitals
- deemed ambulatory surgical centers.
Responses to actual disasters can serve instead of planned exercises.
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