ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

CMS has developed a free, downloadable discharge planning checklist for patients preparing to leave a hospital or other healthcare setting.

Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta (N.J.) has received three-year re-accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a report from the Sparta Independent.

In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recently published Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care, the CDC provides the following seven key recommendations for the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in ambulatory…

Here are 10 recent Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control reports on sharps safety and OSHA which include tools you can download for use by your organization and resources you can use to improve your sharps safety and…

Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a number of free, downloadable resources to help improve hand hygiene at its organizations, with one such resource a hand hygiene observations form.

An appellate court judge has overruled a Superior Court judge’s decision to forgo a lawsuit against Sunnyside (Wash.) Community Hospital alleging negligent care in the death of one of its physicians, according to a Yakima-Herald news report. Read the full…

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether lawmakers and the Tennessee Department of Health had a hand in the state board of nursing's decision to reverse three nurses' suspension, according to a Tennessean news report.

The following article is written by Jeff Terry, general manager and managing principal of clinical operations at GE Healthcare Performance Solutions; Patricia Daughenbaugh RN, MSN, MBA, who leads GE Healthcare Performance Solutions Clinical Excellence consulting practice; and Kathy Martin, MBA,…

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, is the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers. She is overseeing a new AORN policies and procedures manual for ambulatory settings. The first subsection focusing on infection prevention is scheduled to be available…

The Joint Commission has published the latest version of its Accreditation Handbook for Ambulatory Care.