ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

The Pennsylvania Department of Health is blaming low staffing levels as the cause of two patient deaths at Carlisle (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, according to the department's report.

Inspectors from New Jersey's Department of Health and Senior Services found Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, N.J., failed to meet state standards "in about a dozen areas," according to a Record report.

The California Medical Board failed to discipline 710 physicians, all of whom were disciplined for wrongdoing from Sept. 1990 through 2009 by other California healthcare entities, according to an analysis by the non-profit organization Public Citizen.  

AHRQ has published a free, downloadable, newly revised Spanish language medication tracking tool, “Su medicamento: Infórmese. Evite riesgos.” (“Your Medicine: Be Smart. Be Safe.”).

The Regional Surgicenter in Moline (Ill.) has issued a statement, published in The Quad-City Times, in response to the ambulatory surgery center's listing in a recent report identifying ASCs in the state that had received citations for infection control problems…

Baltimore Washington Medical Center has agreed to pay the Maryland Department of Environment a penalty of $14,000 for misadministration of radiation during therapeutic treatment of a patient, according to an MDE news release.

The Florida Board of Medicine has disciplined two physicians for separate instances of malpractice, according to a Herald Tribune report.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board provides a free, downloadable 11x14 inch poster indicating what should and should not go into red bags as biohazardous waste.

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). To learn more about receiving this resource and joining APIC, visit www.apic.org/ambulatorynewsletter. To learn…

The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has announced a "bus-in" day to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14 to lobby the New Jersey Congressional delegation in support of the ASC Quality and Access Act of 2011.