The program will address the issue of wrong site surgery by using Robust Process Improvement, a fact-based, systematic, and data-driven problem-solving methodology incorporating tools and methods from Lean Six Sigma and change management methodologies, according to The Joint Commission.
The ASCs in the program will use RPI to identify risks and contributing factors to wrong site surgery and implement improvements to eliminate wrong site, wrong side, and wrong patient surgical procedures.
The ASCs selected are Center for Health Ambulatory Surgery Center in Peoria, Ill.; La Veta Surgical Center in Orange, Calif.; and Seven Hills Surgery Center in Henderson, N.V.
The solutions for this project are targeted for release — complimentary for Joint Commission-accredited ASCs — early in 2011.
The Ambulatory Surgery Foundation supported the recruitment and participation of ASCs in this pilot program.
Read more about the wrong site surgery project.
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