ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

In a new blog post on The Joint Commission website, Michael Kulczycki, executive director for The Joint Commission's Ambulatory Care Accreditation Program, offers tips to administrators when applying for accreditation.

Here are reports featuring five downloadable patient safety and staff education tools which were added to the Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control Database of Downloadable Patient Safety Tools & Resources during the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a part of the CDC, offers a free, nine-minute video featuring an interview with Diane Mawyer, a nurse whose life was changed by a sharps injury that infected her with hepatitis C.

The CDC provides a free, web-based hand hygiene training course.

The VA National Center for Patient Safety has developed a free, downloadable pre-procedure evaluation template for procedures that require moderate sedation.

The CDC, with support from the CDC Foundation and Kimberly-Clark Corp., have developed a free, downloadable brochure on hand hygiene for patients.

CMS pushed back the date of the re-survey for Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas to give state regulators time to complete their reports on the re-survey that will determine its Medicare status, according to a Forbes report. Read the full…

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has issued a new advisory report (pdf) which analyzes medication error reports submitted by ambulatory surgery facilities to the Authority, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital has submitted to state regulators a corrective action plan after it was cited for the way it handled a patient's miscarriage, according to a Herald Tribune report.

Here are the 10 most-read reports from Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control in August. Note: Clicking a story link will open the report in a new tab.