{"id":293237,"date":"2019-02-06T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=293237"},"modified":"2019-02-06T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:00:32","slug":"grmc-passes-cms-follow-up-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/grmc-passes-cms-follow-up-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"GRMC passes CMS follow-up inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEDEDO, Guam<\/strong>\u2014The Guam Regional Medical City has received passing marks from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services following a recent follow-up inspection at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The CMS paid an unannounced visit to GRMC last week on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, to conduct the follow-up survey.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of a thorough inspection, GRMC was informed Friday that it had passed the follow-up survey and is in full compliance with The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.<\/p>\n<p>EMTALA is a federal law that requires emergency departments to stabilize and treat all patients, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased that GRMC has passed the CMS\u2019 follow-up survey inspection,\u201d said Emergency Department nurse manager Sarah Betcher. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to the hard work our staff puts in to keeping GRMC a hospital that can be trusted to provide the best care for Guam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GRMC\u2019s success with the CMS survey inspection last week is another in a series for the hospital. In November 2018, GRMC was re-accredited by The Joint Commission for another three years following a three-day inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Later that same month, GRMC\u2019s laboratory received accreditation from the prestigious Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists, which the U.S. federal government recognizes as being equal-to or more-stringent-than their own inspection program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassing CMS inspections and receiving TJC and CAP accreditations with no conditional findings are achievements we value. However, they are never the end goal for GRMC. In fact, we treat these surveys as catalysts for finding new opportunities for improvement,\u201d said chief medical officer Felix T. Cabrera. \u201cOur patients count on us to continually make strides to improve the quality of the healthcare we deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CEO and president Michael Cruz, M.D. agreed. \u201cAchieving these important accreditations and passing inspections is critical to maintaining the public\u2019s trust in GRMC. I am very proud of our team for their professional response to an unexpected visit by the CMS and for coming through with flying colors to ensure GRMC will continue providing excellent healthcare for Guam.\u201d (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEDEDO, Guam\u2014The Guam Regional Medical City has received passing marks from the Centers for Medicare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":296922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[919,13973,20878,51],"class_list":["post-293237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pacific","tag-cms","tag-dededo","tag-grmc","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}