The Joint Commission has proposed revisions to is standards for its hospital accreditation program relating to patient flow issues and the safe care of patients awaiting admission or transfer, including patients with psychiatric emergencies, according to The Joint Commission website.
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Michon Villanueva, assistant director, accreditation services, for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, identifies the following AAAHC and Medicare standards as 10 of the most often found to be out of compliance during surveys of ambulatory surgery centers. Note:…
The following article is written by Mary Sturm, VP of clinical operations for Surgical Management Professionals. As the saying goes, "You only have one chance to make a first impression." For many of us in ambulatory surgery centers, that…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule that allows for the release and use of standardized extracts of Medicare claims data for qualified entities to measure the performance of providers of services and suppliers.
The Oregon state website provides six free, downloadable fact sheets for patients and their family members developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in a single document.
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Dr. Jeffrey Port is co-founder and chairman of RF Surgical Systems, a developer of solutions for the detection and prevention of retained surgical items. Q: What is a retained surgical item? Dr. Jeffrey Port: A retained surgical item…
Carol Hiatt, RN, LHRM, CASC, a licensed risk manager in Florida, AAAHC surveyor and consultant for Healthcare Consultants International, a subsidiary of AAAHC, shares 11 strategies to help surgery centers overcome physician and staff resistance to complying with infection control…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides a free, downloadable medications at transitions and clinical handoffs toolkit for medication reconciliation.
A new resource, created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is designed to help healthcare organizations meet regulations of the HIPAA Security Rule, according to a NIST news release.
Methodist Dallas Medical Center has announced it has received notification from CMS that the organization has been found be in full compliance with all Medicare conditions of participation, according to a hospital news release, and is therefore no longer facing…