The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities will hold a surveyor training workshop in Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10.
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
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The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has created a website resource page on quality, safety and accreditation concerns.
Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites, Columbus (Ohio) Eye Surgery Center and Akron, Ohio-based Digestive Health Center have all achieved successful accreditations from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a report from the AmSurg Leadership Blog.
Administrators at paper-based ambulatory surgery centers face a unique set of challenges when it comes to benchmarking, quality improvement, accreditation and other data-based tasks. Here, two administrators speak to the process of gathering, compiling and using data using paper-based systems.
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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…
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.