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…
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
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.
The phrase "go to the gemba," one often quoted in lean environments, means going to an environment to understand how it works and why it works that way. Improvement does not happen in a vacuum.
Hickory, N.C.-based Viewmont Surgery Center has achieved accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
While the initial accreditation process may involve changes in workflow, accreditation readiness becomes integrated into the fabric of compliant ASCs in a way that has many potential benefits to the center, according to Michael Kulczycki, MBA, CAE, executive director of…
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According to the ECRI Institute's list, Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2014, health IT is the biggest danger to patient safety.
The Joint Commission has postponed implementation of standards for reducing diagnostic imaging risks in ambulatory settings until July 2015.
The following are five tips on performance improvement basics for ambulatory care organizations as presented by Dana Dunn, RN, BSN, and Pam Roark, RN, MSN, MA, surveyors from The Joint Commission, as presented on the organization's podcast series, Take 5…
The following centers have achieved recent AAAHC accreditation, according to posts on the AmSurg Leadership Blog.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Specialty Surgical Center of Westlake Village has passed an accreditation survey from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.