NJ ASC Association Lauds New State Website on Surgery Center Inspections

The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has offered positive feedback for a new website launched by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services that focuses on ASC inspections, according to a news release from NJAASC.

The website, hosted at www.nj.gov/health/healthfacilities/asc_info.shtml, provides specific information and results related to inspections of licensed ASCs.

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"Our association has long been a proponent both of compliance and transparency related to licensed facilities, so we're very pleased by the advent of this new website," said Larry Trenk, president of the NJAASC, in the release. "We're very proud of our record in terms of working with DHSS, and any additional source of information for consumers is extremely beneficial."

Mr. Trenk noted that ASCs are the only category of licensed medical facilities to have been designated for such an inspection-focused website. While the state has received an average of 2,600 annual complaints related to all categories of licensed facilities during the past several years, less than 0.5 percent of these complaints each year have been specifically related to an ASC.

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