ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Two AmSurg-affiliated GI/endoscopy centers recently received accreditation.

The Joint Commission recently released updated notes on the Fall Reduction Program for healthcare providers.

The Oil Center Surgical Plaza in Lafayette, La., received accreditation, according to an AAAHC newsletter.

Here are five things to know about the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care, based on information from the AAAHC newsletter.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care accredited Yorkville Endoscopy Center in New York, according to an AAAHC newsletter.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement named a health plan executive and a surgery center veteran to its 2015 board of trustees.

Five AmSurg-affiliated outpatient centers achieved accreditation.

There are countless of examples of non-credentialed individuals performing cases at healthcare facilities — from the teenager who posed as a physician at West Palm Beach, Fla.-based St. Mary's Medical Center for a month to the non-credentialed physician who was…

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care launched two major task forces over the past few months, according to the AAAHC newsletter.

The Joint Commission contributed a viewpoint to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on calling for a new approach to quality and safety improvement.