ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) places significant emphasis on organizations meeting OSHA regulations and performing proper waste management. However, these are areas where facilities, including ambulatory surgery centers, frequently struggle, says Scott J. Trimas, MD, FACS, a…

A licensed practical nurse must surrender her license and serve five years of probation after pleading guilty last year to falsifying documents to cover up negligent care she delivered to a patient, according to an Albany Times Union report.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has produced a free video for patients of the prevention of medical errors.

The Battle Creek (Mich.) Endoscopy and Surgery Center has been awarded accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC/Accreditation Association), according to a news release from the surgery center published by the Battle Creek Enquirer.

There are two weeks left for public comment on AAAHC's 2012 proposed standard revisions.

The Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services provides a free, downloadable poster to encourage proper hand hygiene.

Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program has announced it has awarded accreditation to Des Peres Hospital of St. Louis.

An employee of Calayan Surgicentre in West Hollywood, Calif., has been caught posing as a physician in the plastic surgery center, according to an LA Times report.

The Florida Board of Medicine has fined Jacobo Noel Lama, MD, a physician from Haines City, Fla., more than $3,500 in fines and investigative costs for settling accusations that he allowed an unlicensed employee to perform laser hair removal, according…

Pennsylvania's Board of Medicine has filed a complaint against Feroz Sheikh, MD, who is being accused of failing to notify a patient that she had colon cancer that later caused her death, according to a Times Leader report.