ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Jack Egnatinsky, MD, is the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care's medical director.

The Joint Commission recently released four new performance measures for total hip and total knee replacement procedures.

The Joint Commission accredited Lone Tree, Colo.-based Park Meadows Outpatient Surgery, The Digital Journal reports.

The Joint Commission's integrated care certification is a voluntary certification examining how an organization handles information sharing, IT integration and other integration points.

Theresa Griffin-Rossi is the executive director of the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities.

Therese Poland, RN, BSN, MSN, is the acting president and CEO of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare's Director of Solutions Development Klaus Nether discussed the importance of adverse event reporting in establishing a learning culture in a blog post.

A study, in The Journal of Arthroplasty, examined whether high-volume joint replacement hospitals performed better than low-volume centers under CMS' quality metrics.

The Joint Commission along with the National Quality Forum named three recipients of their annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

Safety culture expert Christina Thielst penned a column on Multi Briefs about CMS' proposal to make accreditation findings publically available.