ASHE e-Learning: Compliance Quick-Start - Module 2

Description

Module 2: Oversight and Authority

Learning objectives:

• Differentiate the entities responsible for creating, adopting, adhering to and enforcing codes.
• Identify applicable federal, state and local codes and guidelines and authority, as well as their relationship with each other.
• Describe building codes and standards required for permitting, certification and licensure vs. codes requiring ongoing inspection, testing and maintenance.
• Determine the course of action when code requirements conflict with one another.

About Compliance Quick-Start

This course is designed to help health care facilities managers and team members take control of the tangle of overlapping regulations and achieve a clear-eyed understanding of what is required, by whom, and how to operationalize solutions on a day-to-day basis at their facilities. Maintain compliance in order to avoid the risk of financial losses, business disruptions, poor patient care, and a damaged reputation that comes from non-compliance with codes, standards and regulations.

Access seven eLearning modules that cover how regulations are established, adopted, and enforced, plus how to: 

• Interpret codes and understand how they apply at your facility.
• Resolve conflicts between different sets of regulations.
• Establish policies and procedures around inspection and maintenance to ensure continual compliance.
• Manage documentation and routines to establish a thorough, consistent compliance program at your facility.