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Laguna Honda outlines path to CMS recertification, warns of transfer challenges
Summary
Interim CEO Roland Pickens told the San Francisco Health Commission that consultants and two mock surveys aim to ready Laguna Honda for CMS recertification this summer, while staff work to assess and relocate more than 670 patients amid scarce Medi-Cal SNF bed capacity and conditional CMS funding.
Roland Pickens, director of the San Francisco Health Network and interim CEO at Laguna Honda Hospital, told the San Francisco Health Commission on June 7 that recertification for participation in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program is the hospital's top priority. "Recertification in the CMS program is our highest priority," Pickens said, outlining a timeline that includes an initial mock survey in June, a second mock survey in August and an application submission in August with an anticipated CMS survey in September.
Pickens said DPH contracted two consulting firms, Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) and Health Management Associates (HMA), to perform a top-to-bottom assessment, help map findings to specific federal CMS regulations and to run mock surveys that simulate CMS inspections. He described the federal process as two-part: an initial survey followed by a…
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