When ASC Durango (Colo.) tracked its PACU times and found some patients were staying longer than four hours, the surgery center concluded that one of the contributing factors was a lack of an accurate discharge criteria policy, says Cheryl Desko,…
ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification
ASC Durango (Colo.) recently underwent its first AAAHC survey and achieved accreditation. Cheryl Desko, RN, clinical director for the ASC, discusses three quality assessment and performance improvement studies which were praised by surveyors.
An effective quality improvement program allows an ASC to track areas of improvement and form new policies and procedures to rectify those problem areas. ASCs should continuously build on past successes by tackling clinical, financial and operational weaknesses. John Dooley,…
The publisher of Becker's ASC Review is launching a new, free electronic newsletter focusing on patient safety and infection control in ASCs.
To be accredited, ASCs are required to ensure all patients have received their advance directives, rights and responsibilities and information about the facility. This poses a challenge as ASCs are now required to provide this information verbally and in written…
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In order to achieve accreditation, ASCs are required to meet numerous standards. One requirement that challenged CEO of Northwest Michigan Surgery Center Jim Stilley was the need to prove to surveyors that patients visiting his surgery center were contacted about…
Jim Stilley, CEO of Northwest Michigan Surgery Center in Traverse City, Mich., outlines six steps ASCs can take in order to be better prepared for a visit by a surveyor from an accreditation organization.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care will no longer accept paper applications beginning Jan. 1, 2011, according to the Sept. 2010 issue of Connection, the bi-monthly e-newsletter from the AAAHC.
Renaissance Surgical Arts, located in Costa Mesa, Calif., has received accreditation by The Joint Commission, according to a Congero Development news release.
Establishing quality improvement studies for your ASC is essential to meeting accreditation requirements by the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care, but more importantly, QI studies help ASCs target areas of improvement to improve clinical outcomes or operational efficiency. Steve…