ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Children's Hospital in Denver will be implementing a bar-code system this fall to help improve medication safety among its patients, according to a Denver Post news report.

The Joint Commission and Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System co-authored a guide for healthcare organizations to implement and enforce a smoke-free or tobacco-free policy, according to a Joint Commission news release.

Memorial Mission Surgery Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), according to a report from Chattanoogan.com.

A new study by HR Solutions found that 70 percent of healthcare workers felt they could report a serious medical error their co-workers committed without fear of reprisal, according to an HR Solutions news release.

Sandy Berreth, RN, MS, CASC, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn., and a AAAHC surveyor, shares the following thoughts on three critical areas of focus for safe drug management in an ASC.

Researchers say the medical field is in need of formal recommendations regarding surgeons' alcohol consumption the day before performing surgery, according to research published in the Archives of Surgery.

Patients undergoing surgery with do-not-resuscitate orders are more likely to experience postoperative complications or mortality, signaling DNR orders as an independent risk factor for poor surgical outcomes, according to research published in the Archives of Surgery.

The Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline has taken various disciplinary measures against physicians for their alleged misconduct, according to a Providence Journal news report.

A provision that would require healthcare workers to wash their hands between patients has been cut out of a patient safety bill moving through the Nevada legislature, according to a report by the Reno Gazette Journal.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) has commended HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and HHS for its framework to establish a Medicare value-based purchasing (VBP) program for ambulatory surgery centers but also expressed concern over suggested delays in its implementation, according…