U.S. Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Region IX on Thursday announced a second turn of "immediate jeopardy" for a Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.
"Please know there is no 'federal takeover' in a future. No one from a sovereign supervision is entrance to 'bail us out,' " settled a CHC administration's email to medical staff on Thursday evening.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS cited CHC for a miss of lab reagents to perform blood glucose tests as good as no control quality.
The lab formula can't be reliable and during slightest one exam frame was used to taint other vials, so a trustworthiness of all strips was compromised.
Secondly, CMS cited CHC staff for disaster to request doctors' orders to collect cultures (wound, blood, urine).
At slightest dual patients were identified to have had disastrous implications from miss of testing.
Third, CHC has no complement in place to guard or lane tests that were sent to a hospital's multiplication of laboratory testing.
Last though not least, CHC has no existent routine for disposing of lab specimens (tissue, organs, biopsies) dating as distant behind as April.
A created devise of correction, or POC, was submitted by CHC administration by a finish of business on Thursday addressing these violations.
This second POC comes on a heel of a sanatorium scrambling to contention a devise of improvement for a initial set of violations identified by a CMS surveyors on Monday that resulted in "immediate jeopardy" standing - a initial in CHC's 25-year history.
CMS surveyors seem to be here to stay for a foreseeable future.
Thursday's email circulated among CHC staff minute a latest violations and suggested them to design a CMS participation by subsequent week.
CHC has 23 calendar days to delineate a POC or remove acceptance that would meant losing approximately $10 million in FY '13 along with technical and regulatory assistance.
One tired medicine who spoke to Variety on condition of anonymity said: "The administrator cooking Lobster…we eat humiliation."
More sum to follow.