CHAP Standards Focus Groups Announced
Jan 30, 2012
CHAP is excited to announce upcoming revisions to our Core, Home Health, Hospice, Home Medical Equipment, Pharmacy, Private Duty and Infusion Therapy Nursing Standards of Excellence. The revisions are intended to strengthen topics such as infection control, emergency management and human resources. We are also expanding topics such as corporate compliance, government regulations and care coordination. In addition to strengthening existing standards and introducing new topics, the revisions process also aims at reducing duplicative standards between Core and service-specific standards, as well as to enhance evidence and interpretive guidelines, and provide checklists and companion educational content.
CHAP will be hosting a series of customer focus groups around the country throughout the first half of 2012, to provide our customers additional opportunity to provide feedback and input on the proposed 2012 standards revisions before we finalize and release the new standards later this year.
Dates and times for the focus groups are forthcoming and will be posted on this website in the next several weeks. In the interim, to request more information on the focus groups as it becomes available, please email businessdevelopment@chapinc.org with the words "Standards Focus Groups" in the subject line.