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For your convenience, find valuable resources as CSHP receives information from state agencies as well as CSHP members. If you have a resource that you would like to share on the CSHP Website, simply send your document and request to cshp@cshp.org.

All Facility Letters (AFL)

		View All Facility Letters (AFL) as posted on the California Department of Public Health's Website
		AFL 08-39: Survey Process for Medication Error Reduction Plans (MERP)
		AFL 09-02: Increased Administrative Penalties for Immediate Jeopardy Penalties
		AFL 09-31: CDPH Suspending Advance Notification in MERP Survey Process
		AFL 09-56: Medication Safety: Storage of Medications Requiring Refrigeration
		AFL 10-10: Patient Safety Licensing Survey

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Resources

		CMS Survey and Certification - General Information
		CMS Conditions of Participation
		State Operations Manual Appendix A - Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals
		State Operations Manual Appendix Q - Guidelines for Determining Immediate Jeopardy
		"Why ASHP publishes Best Practices"
		Hospitals - Revised Interpretive Guidelines for Hospital Conditions of Participation
		Conditions of Participation and Title XXII Transcribed into Excel Format

Medication Error Reduction Plan (MERP) Resources

		MERP Entrance Survey Documents Requested by CDPH (Attachment A)
		MERP Survey Facility Questionnaire (Attachment B)
		MERP Survey Evaluation Form (Attachment C)
		MERP Program & Medication Safety Slides from Loriann De Martini, PharmD, Chief Pharmaceutical Consultant, CDPH
		Implementation of Senate Bills 1875/801 Facility Plan to eliminate or Substantially Reduce Medication-Related Errors
		SB 1875 - Health Facilities and Clinics: Medication-Related Errors
		Health Care Facility Information
		Use of Medications with "Boxed Warnings"
		Multi-Dose Medication and Reuse of Syringes: A Patient Safety Threat In Your Facility?
		"Standing Orders" in Hospitals - Revisions to S&C Memoranda
		Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Guidance on the Interdisciplinary Safe Use of Automated Dispensing Cabinets
		"FDA and ISMP Lists of Look-Alike Drug Name Sets With Recommended Tall Man Letters."
		FDA Black Box Doctor's Orders: Fentanyl Patch Order and Policy and Procedure for Transdermal Fentanyl Patch Prescribing and Use
		ScrippHealth System and Cardinal Health Black Box Warnings Review and Summary and Black Box Warnings Summary Grid
		Pathways Home Health and Hospice Guidelines for Methadone Induction and Methadone - Physician Orders Form
		"CMS & Black Box Warnings - What is the Expectation for Hospitals?"
		Palomar Pomerado Health Procedure for Addressing ICU Delerium Orders for Haldol IV
		LA County Best Practice Recommendations for FDA Black Box Warnings
		"The Continuing Dilemma of Drugs With Black Box Warnings," written by Joyce A. Generali, MS, RPh, FASHP.

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