ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

The Safe Surgery 2015 Initiative, a project of the Boston-based Harvard School of Public Health, is offering a guide to proper implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Program.

The Joint Commission has released 10 years of sentinel event root cause data. The data covers events reported to the organization between 2004 and the second quarter of 2014. Here are the top causes of anesthesia-related, operative or postoperative complication,…

Two studies published in JAMA Internal Medicine have come to the same conclusion: The Food and Drug Administration is doing a poor job of regulating medical device safety.

Virginia Mason Hospital & Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in Seattle, has begun to offer hip and knee replacement warranties for procedures performed in its network.

The Joint Commission has opened its proposed revisions for diagnostic imaging services requirements for comment until Oct. 24, according to an Ambulatory Buzz post.

Performing flawless physician credentialing and privileging is a difficult process. The major ASC accrediting bodies frequently rank the standard as the most challenging for ASCs. To successfully follow through with documentation requires knowledge, persistence and attention to detail. The following…

Surgical item retention is most often due to team, rather than individual, errors, according to research published in the American Journal of Surgery.

The American Medical Association has released a factsheet to help physicians comply with new federal regulations surrounding prescription of hydrocodone.

More than a dozen anti-addiction activist groups have submitted a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell calling for the resignation of Margaret Hamburg, MD, U.S. FDA Commissioner in light of her policies on opioids, according to a report from the…

The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities has released statistics on patient safety in outpatient facilities from analysis of 15 years of AAAASF data on outcomes and procedures for more than 12 million cases.