Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Compliance and Ethics Program, Using CMS's Requirements of Participation

Joseph Zielinski, Compliance and Privacy Officer, CarDon & Associates, and Michelle R. Adams, Associate General Counsel, Ensign Services, discuss how to measure a long-term care facility’s compliance and ethics program. They cover why compliance is so important in the context of long-term care facilities, existing compliance and ethics frameworks, CMS’ Requirements of Participation, recent cases that highlight the importance of compliance effectiveness, and how to measure and utilize data...