Maintain High Clinical & Quality Compliance Standards While Improving Patient Safety
Compliance with accreditation standards is essential for rural and community facilities. While striving to adhere to these standards is crucial, achieving full compliance can be challenging. The demands of patient care often take precedence over completing checklist tasks, but an effective survey readiness program can help providers balance these priorities. Such a program offers significant benefits both for your organization and your patients.
Stroudwater’s clinical and quality rural healthcare experts recognize that addressing regulatory challenges requires a strategic approach. By helping rural healthcare organizations identify and resolve underlying root causes using process improvement methodology, we empower them to address critical vulnerabilities before the hospital receives a survey.
Findings from the Field
Did you know the Top 10 categories of CMS 2567 Survey Deficiencies in the last 3 years fall within the below categories?
QAPI
Fire Drills
Nursing Services
Records Systems
Patient Care Policies
Electrical Systems
Hazardous Areas - Enclosure
Infection Prevention Surveillance & Control of Healthcare Acquired Infections
Sprinkler System - Maintenance and Testing
Infection Prevention & Control Policies
Survey Deficiencies by State
Click on your state to view the hospital deficiencies, including the type of deficiencies, according to CMS 2567 survey data since 2021.
This data does not include deficiencies from other accrediting organizations.
Is your rural facility prepared for its survey?
Clinical & Quality Expertise You Can Trust
With over 40 surveys under our belts, our team has extensive experience working with CMS, The Joint Commission and DNV surveys. We are well versed in assisting hospitals with customized continual survey readiness including, but not limited to:
Emergency Services
Physician Practices
Infection Prevention
Behavioral Health
Patient Safety
Quality Assurance
Surgical Services
Swing Bed
Labor & Delivery
The Survey Readiness Team
Develop a Custom Plan for Hospital Survey Readiness
Stroudwater assists rural and community healthcare organizations including rural and community hospitals, clinics (RHC/FQHC), and ASCs in creating a comprehensive plan to prepare for regulatory surveys, while also reducing risk and improving patient safety. Our team can create custom plans for leadership from mock surveys, survey boot camps to ongoing services partnerships.
