Speaker Profile
LAURA A DIXON
Laura A. Dixon served as the Director, Facility Patient Safety and Risk Management and Operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, Ms. Dixon provided patient safety and risk management consulting and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states. Such services included the creation of and presentations on risk management topics, assessment of healthcare facilities; and development of programs and compilation of reference materials that complement physician-oriented products. Ms. Dixon has more than twenty 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, Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff for the western United States. Ms. Dixon’s legal experience includes medical malpractice insurance defense and representation of nurses before the Colorado Board of Nursing.
Laura A Dixon
October 10 2024
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Advance Directives: Ensuring Compliance with CMS and TJC
Advanced care planning involves making decisions about the medical care a patient wants to receive if they become unable to speak for themselves. Both CMS and The Joint Commission (TJC) address and have requirements on Advanced Directives to be compliant with the respective regulations and standards. A federal law – Patient Self Determination Act – addresses advance directives with which all hospitals must ..
Laura A Dixon
November 06 2024
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
CMS Regulatory Requirements For Emergency Preparedness Programs And TJC Compliance
The COVID-19 pandemic and multiple natural and man-made disasters over the past few years have required hospitals to activate their emergency preparedness plan. In anticipation of patient injury because of such disasters, CMS – Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – revised the Emergency Preparedness Conditions of Participation for hospitals in 2020. This webinar will cover CMS regulations for a..
Laura A Dixon
December 05 2024
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Grievances and Complaints: Ensuring Hospitals Compliance with the CMS CoPs, Joint Commission, DNV Standards and OCR
Hospitals that accept Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement must comply with the CMS Conditions of Participation. The CMS grievance requirements have been a frequent source of deficiency citations. The grievance standards for acute hospitals are in the patient rights section of the Conditions of Participation manual. Although there is no similar section for Critical Access Hospitals, and the requirements for a..
Laura A Dixon
January 23 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
The CMS Hospital Infection Prevention and Control and Antibiotic Stewardship Program: CMS Compliance Requirements 2025
A hospital must have an active infection control program throughout the facility to track, prevent and control infectious diseases, including Healthcare Associated Infections, or HAIs. Additionally, the hospital must have a program for the optimization of antibiotic use through stewardship. This program will discuss the changes CMS made to the infection control standards in 2019, and the interpretive guidel..
Laura A Dixon
February 25 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Informed Consent Update: Maneuvering the Maze Towards Compliance
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the accrediting organizations, such as The Joint Commission (TJC) and DNV have certain elements required for informed consent. This program will discuss the current CMS hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs), including critical access hospitals, Joint Commission and DNV Healthcare standards, on informed consent requirements. There are three different sections..
Laura A Dixon
March 18 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Ligature Risks and Preventing Inpatient Suicide: Compliance with the CMS and TJC Standards
Suicide prevention and protecting patients from harm or strangulation continues to be a major focus of accreditation surveys. Suicide is the third most frequently reported sentinel event.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has promulgated requirements for hospitals to prevent ligature risk and self-harm from patients that are suicidal. Any hospital that receives Medicare/Medicaid payments, ..
Laura A Dixon
April 24 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Medical Staff and Telemedicine: Meeting CMS Conditions of Participation and the Joint Commission Standards
Any hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid payments must comply with the regulations known as Conditions of Participation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospitalCoPs have sections on all aspects of patient care including medical staff and telemedicine. The medical staff section includes information on credentialing and privileging requirements, implementing Medical Staff (MS) byl..
Laura A Dixon
May 20 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Complying with OCR Section 1557: Discrimination, Interpreters, Required Signs,and More
This webinar will discuss a law that applies to all hospitals, including critical access hospitals, and other healthcare providers such as physician offices and nursing homes. The law addresses nondiscrimination, required signs and notices, interpreters, a civil rights law for healthcare providers and others and more under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. It forbids discrimination based on sex, race..
Laura A Dixon
June 24 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Nursing:CMS CoP Standards for Hospitals
Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement must follow the CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and it must be followed for all patients. This program will cover the nursing services section in the hospital CoP manual. Facilities with Deemed Status accredited by the Joint Commission, Health Care Facility Accreditation Program, CIHQ, and DNV ..
Laura A Dixon
July 22 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
CMS Hospital QAPI Standards 2025
Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Conditions of Participation deficiencies are the third most frequently cited of the 24 Conditions for Medicare-certified hospitals. CMS believes that a hospital with a well-designed and well-maintained QAPI program, fully engaged in hospital-wide continuous assessment and improvement efforts can significantly enhance its ability to provide high quality a..
Laura A Dixon
August 07 2025
03 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Workplace Violence: CMS and Joint Commission Standards
Workplace Violence has escalated over the past 15 years, especially in the healthcare arena. Such violence is directed at providers and staff, but also towards family members and others with injuries frequently occurring to bystanders such as healthcare providers. In November 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), issued a memo regarding workplace safety addressing care in a safe environment. Ju..
Medical Staff, Telemedicine and Other Changes: Meeting CMS Conditions of Participation and TJC Standards
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital CoPs has a section on the medical staff. It includes information on credentialing and privileging requirements, implementing Medical Staff (MS) bylaws and rules and regulations, hospitals in systems. This webinar will also cover the Joint Commission standard for medical staff, plus telemedicine and the federal regulations under CMS associated wit..