ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has produced a free, downloadable training video for healthcare employers and workers that explains the proper use of respirators and the procedures to follow to assure that respirators protect workers from airborne hazards in…

The Minnesota Hospital Association provides a free, downloadable 'safe site' poster.

Kearney County Health Services, based in Minden, Neb., provided a medication history/discharge order/patient instructions form for use in a medication reconciliation toolkit developed by the Critical Access Hospital Network and available on the website of the Nebraska Hospital Association.

Pamela Dembski Hart, CHSP, BS MT (ASCP), principal  and founder of Healthcare Accreditation Resources LLC, discusses key steps surgery centers should take to increase compliance with current infection prevention and control standards so successful accreditation may be achieved.

Bozeman (Mont.) Deaconess Hospital has been fined $3,500 for two nuclear safety violations, according to a Republic news report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.

State regulators have filed complaints against Carol Roberts, MD, alleging her lax infection control practices are the cause of a hepatitis C outbreak at her holistic medicine practice in Brandon, Fla., according to a St. Petersburg Times news report.

The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported that Illinois hospitals reported fewer healthcare-associated infections in 2010 than reported in 2009, according to an IDPH news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Illinois hospital infections.

Susan Hare, MD, an internal medicine and pediatrics physician from Tilton, N.H., has been slapped with nearly $88,000 in fines due to a wide range of "professional misconduct," according to a Boston Globe news report.

In June, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare reported that despite intense efforts to curb wrong-site surgery, the adverse event still occurs approximately 40 times a week nationwide. Wrong-site surgery — which includes wrong procedure, wrong patient, wrong side…

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 nine key recommendations for safe injection practices in ambulatory care settings.