ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Joint Commission patient-centered communication standards, approved in Dec. 2009 and released in Jan. 2010, will go into effect on July 1, 2012, according to an AORN release.

The Joint Commission has published a new standards FAQ about texting orders.

CDC is now offering a free, online laboratory training module.

An audit performed by Maryland's Department of Legislative Services show the state's board of physicians has a "serious backlog" of complaints filed against physicians, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

SCOAP (Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program), a program of the Foundation for Health Care Quality, provides a free, downloadable surgical checklist for ambulatory surgery.

Brian Williamson, PharmD, is president & CEO of JCB Laboratories. Q: Can you explain the 60-minute rule for compounded medications per USP 797 and how organizations need to meet this rule?   Brian Williamson: The principle concern of the USP…

The following article is written by Donna Nucci, RN, CIC, infection prevention consultant.   The top 10 facility infection prevention program component updates I would perform tomorrow if I were the person "trained in infection prevention employed by a facility…

The Joint Commission's Ambulatory Health Care blog is running a three-part series on credentialing and privileging.

Here are seven statistics on single-specialty orthopedic ambulatory surgery center outcomes from the ASC Association's Outcomes Monitoring Project 2nd Quarter (April-June) 2011 Report, which saw more than 600 ASCs participating in the survey.

Here are eight clinical findings from an AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement 2011 study on low back injection. Forty-five organizations that perform a combined total of more than 55,000 low back injections annually participated in the study.