ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Benchmarking can be a daunting process. From data collection to actionable solutions, the process is deeply involved. Marcy Sasso, CASC, director of compliance and operations at Sasso Consulting, discusses processes through which ASCs can follow benchmarking data to accreditation results.

While having patient safety policies in place is important, the policies also require a complementary culture in order to be effective, according to a post from Paul Ziaya, MD, field director at The Joint Commission, on the JC Physician Blog.

The Joint Commission has published its data for the top standards compliance issues for the first half of 2014.

The following are six recent articles on the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, published on Becker's ASC Review.

According to patient safety group LifeWings, teaching employees scripts for dealing with problems with patient care is highly effective in preventing inaction. Here are four tips from the organization on creating and implementing script-based interventions.

Building a culture of accountability is important for practitioner and staff ownership of patient safety. Here are five steps to take to foster a culture of accountability in your organization, from Harvard Business Review.

The item most often left inside surgical patients, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, is the surgical sponge, often difficult to see once soaked in blood and pushed inside of a body…

The Joint Commission provides a brief guide for improving rates of credentialing compliance. Here are the who, what, when and where of credentialing compliance:

While minimally invasive surgery is associated with a reduced risk of surgical site infections, the type of surgery is associated with different infection risks, according to an article published in JAMA Surgery.

According to The Joint Commission, 70 percent of sentinel events it reviews are self-reported. The following are five reasons why sentinel event reporting improves patient safety in accredited healthcare organizations.