ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

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.

In the Nov. 17 edition of the ASCA Government Affairs Update, the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association is reminding ASCs that CMS is expecting them to use a safe surgical checklist for the entire 2012 calendar year as part of the…

The New Jersey Assembly Health Committee will consider a bill on Monday that would make all surgical facilities — including single-room surgical practices, multi-room ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals — subject to the same licensing by the state health department,…

AAAHC has announced there will only be two outcomes for organizations undergoing a survey from the accreditor: three-year term or denial of accreditation, according to a report in the Nov. issue of Connection, the AAAHC's e-newsletter.

A new bill has been introduced in Pennsylvania that would require Pennsylvania hospitals and other healthcare facilities to take steps to protect nurses and other healthcare workers from workplace violence, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania Association of…

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network has placed University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's transplant program on probation, following a series of events in which the hospital's lack of oversight led to the transplant of a kidney from a donor infected…