Our Davita center in Gayloed, Michigan knows they have an inspection coming. I have heard one tech talking about it and they are really going over everything in preparation.

I have observed a lot of going through a bunch of papers and a lot of what looked like they were updating them and signing them. This took place over a more than two hour period.

The patient's rights poster was put back up on the wall in the waiting room and they are cleaning the HOYER after every patient that uses it. Most of the time it does not get ckeaned after patients use it. Maintenance has been in there every day I have been there and normally, rarely see him and never three times or more in a week. They are paying a lot of attention to the machines and working on them. Since they have started this with the machines I have noticed I am getting a much more accurate BP reading from the machine.

Seems to vary how well inspections go from state to state. Also recall Arlene saying the states have to notify the ESRD networks inspections are coming? Believe it didn't used to be that way. From my days in the military you may have a top secret clearance, but you didn't know unless you had "a need to know". I don't see why these networks have a need to know. From everything I hear "they have a need to leak".