Feds to Catholic hospital: Douse chapel candle or lose health care payments
In a statement to The Washington Times, a spokesperson for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said the agency “is working with the hospital’s accrediting organization to develop options to mitigate the potential fire risk and remove the safety finding.”
The earlier CMS letter was adamant about enforcing a requirement that open flames in hospitals be “supervised at all times.” A loss of accreditation and funding “would abruptly and immediately jeopardize its services to the elderly, disabled, and low-income patients” who rely on the federal funds, said Ms. Widham, whose nonprofit legal group is representing the hospital.
Advocates say the chapel candle is far from medical equipment and patients and shielded by two glass holders. It stands in a brass basin attached to a wall.
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