Accreditation is an ongoing quality process for an ASC. While accreditation doesn't solve all ills, it does help surgery centers and other healthcare organizations put in place and maintain processes to ensure safe and efficient care. Some standards, however, are…
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
A true commitment to non-maleficence, "first, do no harm," requires more than an ideological commitment, according to a post from The Joint Commission Physician Blog, written by Paul M. Schyve, MD, a senior advisor with The Joint Commission.
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.
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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: