Community health centers are required to develop and maintain policies or procedures that demonstrate the health center is working to mitigate patient safety risks. Four of those policies are Referral Tracking (RT), Hospitalization Tracking (HT), Diagnostic Tracking (DT), and After-Hours Call Follow-up Tracking (AH) policies.

RegLantern has developed a clever solution to the Naming Convention in our platform to assist users with easily applying the naming convention in front of the document name for all HRSA documents.

The HRSA Site Visit Protocol was updated on April 13, 2023.

HRSA has updated this year’s FTCA deeming application! The RegLantern team has reviewed the document in detail and guides your team through the changes.

Bringing on a new CEO or Program Director is an exciting time for a health center. There is fresh energy and new opportunities. There are also learning curves for the CEO, Board and staff as everyone adjusts to a new leadership and a new vision for the organization.

FTCA redeeming application…don’t wait!

Which policies must the Board approve? Does the Board adopt policies or approve them? Is there a difference?

The Bureau of Primary Health Care is piloting a new Virtual Operational Site Visit (vOSV) format called Engaging Health Centers in Compliance and Excellence Site Visit (HCCESV).

HRSA updates Site Visit Protocol with minor changes focused on look-alikes and FTCA-deemed organizations.

HRSA has recently updated its FTCA application requirements. Read more how health centers can be prepared.

Let’s remove the barriers to understanding discounts for patients.

During kick-off calls for VOSVs, Health Centers are being handed documents with extensive Naming Conventions. What does this mean? How do I handle them having different numbers?

HRSA released two new tools to help health centers improve their Form 5B accuracy.

Health centers often wonder how utilizing volunteer health professionals impacts their FTCA deeming.

FTCA requires community health centers to train their Board and staff in certain key areas.

After reviewing hundreds of credentialing and privileging files, we have a few recommendations for how to keep them up-to-date, compliant, and organized.

HRSA has recently updated the Site Visit Protocol. Specifically, areas addressing contracts and agreements now have clarifying language added.

HRSA updated the Health Center Program Site Visit Protocol in May of 2021 (Effective May 27, 2021) and added an additional question regarding fitness for duty verification. The health center must now be able to explain, “how the health center has verified fitness for duty to ensure all clinical staff have the physical and cognitive ability to safely perform their duties”.