ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Ray Grundman, senior director of external relations for the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care and an AAAHC surveyor, offers five steps that ambulatory surgery center leaders can put in place at their centers to always be prepared for an…

A recent study published in Surgical Endoscopy, co-authored by American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery president-elect Ninh T. Nguyen, MD, FACS, has found that non-accredited bariatric centers had an in-hospital mortality rate of 0.22 percent, while accredited centers had…

The Joint Commission and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association have granted Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton, N.J., advanced certification as a comprehensive stroke center.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have recently surveyed six AMSURG affiliated surgery centers and found no deficiencies.

The Joint Commission has granted its Gold Seal of Approval to Des Peres Hospital in St. Louis, according to a stltoday.com report.

The American College of Surgeons' Bariatric Surgery Center Network has granted Health First LifeShape and the Melbourne (Fla.) Same-Day Surgery Center outpatient bariatric surgery center accreditation, according to a Space Coast Daily report.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a decision memo that proposes to end certification requirements for bariatric surgery centers, according to a Clinical Endocrinology News report.  

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has announced that its standards have been licensed to be used in the software tools of Basha and Power DMS.

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has named the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center a Blue Distinction Center+ for quality and cost-effective cardiac care.

The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission has granted Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., three-year accreditation for echocardiography, according to a Chicago Tribune report.