ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

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.

If all goes well during veterinary trials, a gel that stops bleeding in 10 seconds may soon be ready for human testing in military and trauma spaces, according to a report from Fast Company Coexist.

A decade after the beginning of formal debate over regulation of hydrocodone, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has issued a final rule on classification of hydrocodone combination products, moving the drug combination from a Schedule III to a Schedule II…

The Joint Commission has updated the language of its Medicare deeming standards, though the changes will require no extra action from surgery centers, according to a post on Ambulatory Buzz.