ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Jennifer Hunara, administrator of the Surgery Center of Allentown (Pa.), manages one of ASCOA's largest and most profitable surgery centers. For three straight years, the center has achieved inspections without a single deficiency with the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Ms.…

The following article is written by Joyce Thomas, senior vice president, operations, for Regent Surgical Health. Do you remember the "good ol days" of traveling? A time when we could schedule our airplane trip and get a real ticket prior…

Random inspections by the N.J. Department of Health and Senior Services of 91 surgical practices and ambulatory surgical centers have revealed concerning findings including 25 of the facilities posing "immediate jeopardy" to patient safety, according to a report on NJ.com…

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the new AORN perioperative education specialist who has a focus on ambulatory surgery centers, discusses six common misconceptions about proper sterilization in ASCs.

Orthopaedic Surgery Center of Asheville (N.C.) has achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), according to a report from The Asheville Citizen-Times.

An unidentified whistleblower has revealed mold is growing inside the walls of Norman Regional Health System's Porter campus in Norman, Okla., and a contracted construction worker is not adequately removing the deadly substance, according to a local News 9 report.

The following are sample trigger questions for performing a root cause analysis of a blood or body fluid exposure for a sharps injury prevention program from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Workbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a…

Karen Lombard, RN, is contract manager, medical/surgical for Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization. She previously ran a 21-OR ambulatory surgery center and helped to achieve an infection rate of just 0.3 percent.   Q: How do you think…

Supreme Court justices recently offered arguments over whether generic drug-makers should be held to the same level of accountability as brand-name prescription drug-makers on updating warning labels, according to a CNN news report.

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have determined that electronic faucets are more likely to become contaminated with high levels of bacteria, compared with traditional manually operated faucets, according to a Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America…