ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

The following article appeared in the July 2010 issue of Connection, the bi-monthly e-newsletter from the AAAHC.Following recent changes by Medicare, AAAHC has been required to make revisions to the 2010 Accreditation Handbook for Ambulatory Health Care. The section entitled,…

Jack Egnatinsky, MD, medical director of the AAAHC and a retired anesthesiologist, provides guidance for overcoming the ASC challenge of how to prevent patient falls.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care will seek comments to its proposed standards revision from Aug. 2-31.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses is now offering an infection prevention course for ASCs, according to a news release by AORN.

Jack Egnatinsky, MD, medical director of the AAAHC and a retired anesthesiologist, provides guidance for what he has seen as a challenge for many ASCs: peer review, which is a sub-chapter in the AAAHC standards manual.

The World Health Organization has created posters to help organizations improve hand hygiene — one showing proper hand washing steps and one providing proper hand rubbing steps.

Nancy Burden, director of ambulatory surgery for BayCare Health System, describes how her ASC has worked to improve hand hygiene.Proper hand hygiene is an essential component of safe care. It has always been a major concern for us and we…

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has announced the promotion of several members of its executive staff.

Sandy Berreth, RN, MS, CASC, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in in Baxter, Minn., shares three ways her ASC has recently improved its efforts to better meet accreditation requirements.

Nancy Burden is director of ambulatory surgery for BayCare Health System.Q: What are some steps we can take to meet the new Joint Commission standard in the ambulatory National Patient Safety Goal NPSG.07.05.01 EP 5: "Measure surgical site infection rates…