{"id":214,"date":"2020-03-18T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quada1.wpenginepowered.com\/notice-regarding-suspension-of-surveys-due-to-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:53:22","slug":"notice-regarding-suspension-of-surveys-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/blog-posts\/notice-regarding-suspension-of-surveys-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice Regarding Suspension of Surveys Due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: black;\">As you are aware, President Trump has declared a national emergency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is fluid with daily changes and updates to recommendations. In the interest of limiting \u200bthe exposure of patients, facility staff, and our surveyors to the COVID-19 virus, \u200band in order to reduce the burden on facilities that are devoting their efforts to combating the transmission of COVID-19, Quad A is suspending routine on-site \u200bresurvey activities. \u200bHowever, due to the National call to increase healthcare capacity, Quad A may continue to conduct initial surveys on a case by case basis.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: black;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">We will be working directly with these facilities \u200bthat require surveys as needed\u200b, in many cases to provide modified services in response to the emergency situation. In addition, Quad A will continue to provide certain surveys at the discretion of the Quad A Board, including in response to complaints related to Infection Control or patient abuse.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: black;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">Quad A will work with facilities that are due for re\u200b-accreditation surveys \u200bon all pre-survey activities up to the point of scheduling the onsite survey. Such facilities will be contacted directly and advised of further steps that may need to be taken. Quad A will continue to consider valid the Accreditation and Medicare participation \u200bof facilities whose accreditation expire\u200bs during this suspension. Postponed on-site re\u200b-accreditation surveys will be conducted once normal operations resume.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you are aware, President Trump has declared a national emergency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is fluid with daily changes and updates to recommendations. In the interest of limiting \u200bthe exposure of patients, facility staff, and our surveyors to the COVID-19 virus, \u200band in order to reduce the burden on facilities that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-announcements","category-covid-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}