The California Department of Public Health fined Community Hospital of San Bernardino (Calif.) $80,000 after an investigation revealed the hospital's substandard care was the cause for a patient's death in 2008, according to an LA Times news report.
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The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has identified 29 causes of wrong-site surgery and offered "targeted" solutions for how to overcome these challenges.
Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control has launched a new database that provides a wide range of downloadable tools and resources designed to help healthcare providers improve quality of care and ensure a safe working environment for their…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide a poster which describes how tuberculosis is spread and the difference between latent TB infection and TB disease.
A New Jersey bill that would require licensing for one-operating room surgery centers in the state has been amended, and the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has expressed its satisfaction with the changes.
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Eight ambulatory surgical centers and hospitals joined with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare to address the factors of wrong-site surgeries, which are estimated to occur 40 times a week based on state data.
The four ambulatory surgery centers of Florida's BayCare Health System undergo an annual, unannounced drill to prepare for the possibility of their information systems going down, according to Nancy Burden, director, BayCare Ambulatory Surgery.
Gundersen Lutheran Health System in La Crosse, Wis., has created job action cards in the event of a radiological incident.
Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has released a new toolkit focusing on the safe handling of hazardous drugs.
There's an element of risk management in almost every function and process that occurs in an ambulatory surgery center, says Carol Hiatt, RN, LHRM, CASC, a licensed risk manager in Florida and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care surveyor who…