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The federal Centers for Medicarr and Medicaid Services inspected the hospital last followingthe hospital’s announcemenr that 33 infants in the neonatal intensivs care unit may have been exposec to the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as swine flu. In a legal notice published in Friday’s editionb of the News & Record of Greensboro, Medicar officials said the hospital was found not in compliance of issues surroundiny itsgoverning body, patient rights and infection control.
The legalp notice incorrectly said the findings were relaterd to CarolinasMedical Center-Northeast, which is in Concordx and not affiliated with Moses Cone Health said Doug Allred, a Moses Cone Allred said Moses Cone expectz that Medicare officials will conducrt another investigation before July 12, and the hospitalk expects to address their concerns and remain eligiblde for Medicare payments. Allred did not immediately know how much the hospitak collectsfrom Medicare, but it is a significant portion of most hospital’as payments.
Joan Wessman, Moses Cone’s chief nursing officer, said such notice s are “not highly unusual,” but hospitalsa are almost always able toaddress Medicare’ s concerns and remain in compliance and eligibls for payments. Wessman said the hospital alread y had most of its action plan prepared before Medicaree officials visitedlast week, but the hospital had to wait untill the official notice came to officially submit the “We expected this might Wessman said. “We have put most everythint we need to doin place.
There is just a formalo process we have to go In an update about the infants onFridayh afternoon, Moses Cone said the incubatiob period for the infants catchingg the flu has passed. The hospital said 11 of the 33 infantsa believed to have been exposed to H1N1 have been discharged to home, and none of them have exhibited symptoms of the flu.