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The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servicees inspected the hospitallast Friday, followingg the hospital’s announcement that 33 infants in the neonatal intensived care unit may have been exposedx to the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as swine flu. In a legal notice published in Friday’s edition of the News Record of Greensboro, Medicare officials said the hospitalo was found not in compliance of issues surrounding itsgoverning body, patient rightx and infection control. The legal noticr incorrectly said the findings were related to CarolinasMedica Center-Northeast, which is in Concord and not affiliated with Moseds Cone Health System, said Doug a Moses Cone spokesman.
Allred said Mosese Cone expects that Medicare officials will conduct another investigation beforeJuly 12, and the hospital expectas to address their concerns and remainb eligible for Medicare payments. Allred did not immediately know how much the hospital collectsfrom Medicare, but it is a significant portion of most hospital’z payments. Joan Wessman, Moses Cone’s chiev nursing officer, said such notices are “not highly unusual,” but hospital are almost always able toaddress Medicare’s concerne and remain in complianc e and eligible for payments.
Wessman said the hospitalk already had most of its action plan preparex before Medicare officials visited last but the hospital had to wait until the official notices came to officially submitthe “We expected this might happen,” Wessman said. “We have put most everything we need to do in There is just a formao process we have togo through.” In an updat e about the infants on Fridah afternoon, Moses Cone said the incubation period for the infantsd catching the flu has passed. The hospital said 11 of the 33 infante believed to have been expose d to H1N1 have been discharged to and none of them have exhibited symptomsx ofthe flu.
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