ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

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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.

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…

Despite increased efforts toward sharps education, sharps injuries, unlike many other workplace harms, remain at concerning levels. In an effort to combat sharps injuries, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration requires use of safer medical devices, prompt disposal of devices…

The Joint Commission offers tips to improve accreditation readiness for ambulatory organizations on its blog, Ambulatory Buzz. The following are tips on the blog for keeping credentialing on schedule from Susan Herrold, MN, RN, and Mary Pat Hall, MSN, RN,…