ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Christiana Care Health System provides a free, downloadable Universal Protocol and fire risk assessment for bedside procedure.

Marsha Wallander, RN, is assistant director, accreditation services, for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.   Q: We have a GI (endoscopy room) situated by the post-op/nurse's station. We would plan on bagging and placing the scope once wiped…

Preparing an ambulatory surgery center for an accreditation survey can be nerve-wracking, with so much paperwork to present and so many regulations to double-check. Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn., and a surveyor for the…

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS), an advocacy group devoted to improving patient health and safety, has recently announced it is putting together a working group to create a checklist targeted towards patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).

Parent company Universal Health Services has announced that two Southwest Healthcare System facilities in California are now in compliance to CMS standards, marking the end of a regulatory process that began in 2009.

The FDA provides a free, downloadable "DOs and DON'Ts of Proper Sharps Disposal" poster.

Here are seven statistics on 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 colonoscopy. Eighty-eight organizations that perform a combined total of more than 282,000 colonoscopies annually participated in the study.

The National Patient Safety Foundation provides a free, downloadable patient education brochure titled "Preventing Infections in the Hospital – What You Can Do."

The U.S. Department of Defense, as part of its patient safety program, provides a free, downloadable professional conduct toolkit.