ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

The Joint Commission appointed David W. Baker, MD, the inaugural editor-in-chief of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities granted accreditation to five surgical facilities in New York in August.

Five facilities in Illinois recently received American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities in August.

The Accreditation Association for Hospitals and Health Systems acquired Health Facilities Accreditation Program from the American Osteopathic Association.

Here are six facts about scoring and accreditation from The Joint Commission:

There were three healthcare facilities that received accreditation earlier this year.

Here are five key facts on influenza testing from The Joint Commission.

Organizations accredited through the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care must have two completed quality improvement projects when applying for an accreditation survey.

Alsie Fitzgerald is a surveyor for the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care, a position she's held since 2005. She has served as a board member of the Board of Ambulatory Surgery Certification and spent time as the director of…

At three recent, but different, accreditation/Medicare surveys surveyors spent a great deal of their time discussing between themselves and with the administrator.