The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses' annual awareness campaign for the surgical time out, National Time Out Day, will fall June 11, 2014.
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
The Joint Commission has released an infographic guide on anesthesia and sedation for explaining the processes to patients.
Before meeting with a surveyor, ASCs should ensure they have a "ready to go" list — a document that outlines paperwork that must be at the ready for an accreditation survey to proceed, according to a post on The Joint…
According to The Joint Commission's newsletter Quick Safety, the organization is increasingly finding noncompliance with standard IC.02.02.01, which concerns risk reduction for infection transmission associated with medical equipment, supplies and devices.
Keeping dantrolene stocked in ASCs could cost-effectively prevent more than 30 malignant hyperthermia deaths each year, according to an article in Anesthesiology.
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SourceMedical Solutions Vice President-Clinical Informatics Ann Geier has been appointed to represent the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association Foundation as a liaison with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
The following AmSurg ambulatory surgery centers have achieved accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a post on the AmSurg Leadership Blog:
For surgical patients, blood clots of the lungs or lower extremities are much less likely if they receive individualized treatment based on clotting risk and if they begin walking soon after their surgeries, according to an article published in the…
Ensuring proper high-level sterilization is one of the top five challenges for healthcare organizations during accreditation and reaccreditation. In 2013, the noncompliance rate for Joint Commission standard IC.02.02.01 — which requires organizations to reduce the risk of infection associated with…
Accreditation is essential to ambulatory surgery center success. Here are six top areas in which the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care found ASCs to be non-compliant or partially non-compliant.