The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has announced a comprehensive set of resources to help ambulatory care facilities develop and maintain infection control programs, according to an APIC news release.
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The Nevada State Health Division's Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance delivered a cease operations letter to the Clinica de Mujeres, a Las Vegas clinic owned by Vickie Mazzorana, MD, for performing surgeries without a license, according to a…
The 12 hospitals and 21 surgery centers in Rhode Island have agreed to a new surgical protocol to prevent wrong-site surgery errors, according to a report in The Providence Journal.
The fourth annual report from the New Hampshire Health Care Quality Assurance Commission showed that hospitals and surgery centers in New Hampshire lead the nation in infection control, according to report in the Nashua Telegraph.
The results from the first analysis of data in the Bariatric Outcomes Longitudinal Database, the world's largest dedicated repository of clinical bariatric surgery patient information, showed that Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence demonstrate a high level of safety, according to…
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists has launched LifelinetoModernMedicine.com, a Web site designed to inform and educate patients on anesthesia, according to an ASA news release.
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses is promoting National Time Out Day, June 17, to emphasize the importance of surgical teams to take a time out to confirm vital patient information prior to surgery, according to an AORN news release.
Nevada Assembly Bill 123, which requires yearly, unannounced inspections of ambulatory surgery centers, was signed into law, according to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Increasingly, medical procedures in the United States are being performed in ASCs. According to statistics released earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics estimated that the rate of visits to ASCs tripled…
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $50 million in Recovery Act funds to hospitals and surgery centers to help fight healthcare associated infections (HAIs) and improve patient safety at a speech before…