ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

New Life Surgery Center, a Beverly Hills ambulatory surgery center affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign, has been asked to make improvements or risk losing its Joint Commission accreditation, according to an L.A. Times report.

CMS officials have found several patient safety failures at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, according to a Houston Chronicle news report.

An iPhone app could help significantly improve hand hygiene adherence among healthcare workers, according to research results presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology annual meeting.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking comment on seven proposed medication-related quality measures, according to an American Hospital Association news release.

The Commission to End Health Care Disparities urges ambulatory practices to collect demographic data to improve quality of care, according to a white paper by the Commission.

A March 30 follow-up inspection of University Hospital in Columbia, Mo., showed the hospital is now in full compliance with Medicare standards after coming under fire for noncompliance in infection control and other requirements, according to a Columbia Tribune news…

Iowa does not require healthcare facilities to report medical errors, a mandate currently enforced in 26 states, according to a KCRG report.

OSHA has started conducting inspections of outpatient care centers in four states — Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Florida — in an effort to reduce needlesticks and sharps hazards, according to a report from the ASC Association in its ASCA Government…

Healthcare experts from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Safe Injection Practices Coalition and other organizations spoke at a teleconference on safe injection practices, urging healthcare professionals to do more in order to protect patients from infection and injury.

A statewide initiative sponsored by Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities focuses on merging healthcare with literature, poetry and other forms of literature to help improve patient care at the hospital, according to…