ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration has reinstated its National Practitioner Data Bank — with a new usage agreement — after pulling it offline in September.

The American Board of Medical Specialties has created a new website that allows consumers to find out whether their specialists are meeting the ABMS' Maintenance of Certification program requirements established by certifying boards.

Here are eight more 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. We previously published seven statistics from the report.

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.