ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Methodist Dallas Medical Center must submit an action plan for patient safety deficiencies by Sept. 6 or risk revocation of its Medicare status, according to a Dallas Business Journal report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Methodist…

The Dean Clinic, based in Madison, Wis., has contacted 2,345 patients who may have been exposed to bloodborne diseases from a former nurse's improper use of medical devices during patient training, according to a news release.

The Children's Medical Center of Dayton (Ohio) is requiring all employees and volunteers to receive the flu vaccine this fall in order to work at the hospital, according to a hospital news release.

Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, identifies 15 questions surgery centers and other providers need to ask themselves to help ensure an effective and compliant quality program.

In early August, a story was published stating the Illinois Department of Public Health had issued citations for infection control problems to two-thirds of same-day surgery centers in Illinois inspected during the past year. The story documented many of the…

Here are reports featuring 16 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. 22-Aug. 26.

A family practice in Dayton, Ohio, has been fined $10,500 as part of a settlement with OSHA relating to violations in areas including sharps safety, infection control and employee training, according to a Dayton Daily News report.

The National Transitions of Care Coalition Advisory Task Force has published a free, downloadable transitions of care checklist.

The University of Virginia provides a free, downloadable patient information sheet on Clostridium difficile.

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, for Surgical Care Affiliates. "Because teammates work in a hurried and…