ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

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.

When managed appropriately, accreditation can be a business-enhancer for ambulatory surgery centers. It helps centers stay on track where it concerns quality and safety, and it reassures patients that they are seeking treatment in the right place.

The following are tips on safer injection practices from Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

Has your center recently earned accreditation? Let the community know.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has released an issue of its newsletter, Connections, focusing on safe injection practices.

The following are the most common root causes between 2004 and 2013 for operative and postoperative complications, unintended retention of foreign objects and wrong-patient, wrong-site wrong-procedure sentinel events as reviewed by The Joint Commission. Sentinel events often have more than…

The following AmSurg-affiliated centers have achieved accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a post on the AmSurg Leadership Blog:

Surgical site infections are the most common and costliest healthcare-associated infection, but 60 percent of SSIs have been estimated to be preventable through the use of evidence-based guidelines, according to a recent article in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.