ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

At the 2011 Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago, Ray Grundman, senior director of external relations and accreditation surveyor at AAAHC, outlined the most common accreditation problems plaguing orthopedic, spine and pain management-driven ambulatory surgery centers.

The National Quality Forum Board has approved for endorsement a list of 29 serious reportable events in healthcare, according to an NQF news release.

National Fit Testing Services has expanded its in-service training program to help first responders and other affected healthcare workers meet OSHA respiratory protection standards, according to an OSHA news release.

Physicians' Surgery Center in Carbondale, Ill., recently achieved accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

Delaware state congressman Sen. Michael Katz has accused Rep. Bryon Short of plagiarizing a bill that Sen. Katz says he wrote with other medical professionals, according to a WBOC report.

Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, is president of Infection Control Consulting Services based in Blue Bell, Pa.   Q: After reading the article "Safe Injection Practices Checklist: 12 Critical Rules to Follow," item #10 became a major topic of discussion at…

The following article is written by Daren Smith, RN, director of clinical services, for Surgical Management Professionals.   Are you in charge of coming up with meaningful quality improvement studies for your facility? Has the idea well run dry? QI…

Debate over how the Connecticut Medical Examining Board operates fires up as critics express concerns that the board is being too lenient with physicians who commit "egregious" patient safety violations, according to a Greenwich Time news report.

Here are 10 recent Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control reports on hand hygiene which include tools you can download for use by your organization and resources you can use to improve your hand hygiene efforts and compliance.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, prepared the "How-to Guide: Improving Hand Hygiene — A Guide for Improving Practices…