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.
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
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…
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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.
The following centers have been recognized for accreditation on Becker's ASC Review in the past month.
Credentialing is the number one problem for ASCs when it comes to successful surveys for accreditation or reaccreditation. It's important for centers to take this to heart when planning for successful credential processes. Here, Marshall M. Baker, MS, FACMPE, a…
Keeping a well-run credentialing program is a problem for many ambulatory surgery centers. The item is the most-often overlooked on accreditation and reaccreditation surveys for all three major ASC accrediting organizations — the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, The…