New York City-based Yorkville Endoscopy, the ambulatory surgery center at which Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest preceding her death, has announced it has a plan to correct its accreditation and safety errors, and CMS has approved the plan, according…
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
The unfortunate incidents leading to the death of Joan Rivers have cast a pall over the ASC industry. Normally the model for healthcare safety and reliability, the comedienne's death as the result of an ASC-based procedure has called the industry's…
Chesapeake, Md.-based Chesapeake Urology's Summit Ambulatory Surgery Centers announced reaccreditation.
The Joint Commission approved the policy and procedure of multidose eye drops in April 2012, according to a MPR report.
The following ASCs have achieved successful accreditations from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a post on the AmSurg Leadership Blog.
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New York City-based Orbis has achieved American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities International for its Flying Eye Hospital, an eye-focused ASC located in a functional airplane.
CMS has renewed The Joint Commission's ambulatory surgery center deeming authority from Dec. 20, 2014 through Dec. 20, 2020.
The Joint Commission has hosted a Dec. 3 webinar on Sentinel Event Alert 53: Managing risk during transition to new ISO tubing connector standards.
Winter is here, bringing with it a wide array of concerns for ambulatory surgery centers. Are we in for another brutal winter? What weather-related problems will ASCs face over the coming months? While we don't have answers to these questions…
The Joint Commission’s Revision to the Provision of Care, Treatment and Services standard PC.01.02.07 will go into effect Jan. 1, 2015.