This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
Here's your daily industry news brief from May 4th.
First three, Florida nurses say they're fighting to keep their licenses.
They say they legitimately earned their nursing degrees from one of the three
now closed Florida schools that was involved in the fraudulent degree charges.
All free nurses currently still have their licenses.
Their licenses will remain valid pending the outcome of the investigation.
Earlier this year, 25 people were charged in Operation Nightingale.
Each person faces up to 20 years in prison.
The three nursing schools are Sienna College in Lauder Hill,
Palm Beach School of Nursing in West Palm Beach and Sacred Heart International
Institute in Boca.
Raton officials allege the school sold over
7,600 fake diplomas and transcripts to aspiring nurses.
With these transcripts,
students can sit for the National Council relationship examination without
completing required coursework of the individuals who bought the fake documents.
Over 30% pass the test,
obtain their nursing licenses and secure jobs in US healthcare facilities.
The lawsuit clients are two RNs and one lpn.
All three were born outside of the US and their lawyer, Jamal Jones,
believes they were targeted because of this.
He also says officials are only listening to the affidavits of the main
perpetrators and not conducting independent research. Mr.
Jones denies that any of his clients paid for their licenses.
Beckers tried to reach all three schools for comment.
Phone numbers are no longer in service. Second,
yesterday,
a patient began shooting at Northside Hospital Medical Midtown in Atlanta.
The shooter killed a CDC employee and injured four others.
The woman killed this 38 year old Amy St. Pierre.
She was a public health advisor for the C D C in Atlanta.
All five victims are women.
The suspect reportedly became upset during a medical appointment at the
facility. Further,
details about the appointment and motive are not currently known.
The victims were transported to Grady Memorial Hospital.
In a statement Grady Hospital's media team said three patients were in critical
condition and one is in stable condition.
Police have identified and found the suspect following an eight hour manhunt.
This story is developing and will be updated online once more information
becomes available. Third, St.
Francis health system could lose federal funding if it doesn't get rid of a
sacred candle burning in its hospital. St. Francis is a Catholic health system.
It always keeps a sacred candle lit within its hospital chapels.
The Joint Commission found one of the flames dangerous in February.
It told the hospital to extinguish it or risk losing Medicare, Medicaid,
and children's health insurance program funding.
The health system disagrees with the decision and has asked for a waiver four
times. The candle is encased in glass and covered on top. In the past,
it's been approved by the government and local fire marshal. Two weeks ago,
CMS affirmed the joint commission's decision.
CMS says the open flame burns unsupervised 24 7.
This violates its policy for patient safety. Yesterday,
nonprofit public interest law firm for religious Liberty Beckett Law sent
a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Bera and C M s administrator
Chiquita Brooks.
Lahore Beckett alleges the citation violates the hospital's First Amendment
rights. Fourth,
John Muir Health's Walnut Creek Medical Center in California launches a
corrective plan following a CMS investigation and for preventable pediatric
patient deaths.
A CMS statement of deficiencies finds the hospital failed to define certain
conditions and procedures that would require a patient to be transferred for
more intensive care. Last month,
John Muir executives created and implemented a corrective action plan.
CMS says all deficiencies are related to documentation. Currently,
the hospital does not face disruption to its Medicare funding.
CMS accepted the corrective plan.
It will conduct an unannounced visit to ensure the plan is being implemented.
Fifth,
the LEAP data shows a significant rise in healthcare associated infections,
which were previously declining before the pandemic.
The Leapfrog group measures this using the standardized infection ratio.
This compares the number of ais at each hospital to the predicted number of
infections.
HAIs with the largest increase include central line associated bloodstream
infections, catheter associated urinary tract infections,
and methicillin resistant step.
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