ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

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.

Michael Kulczycki is The Joint Commission's executive director of ambulatory care services.

Terry Hawes, RN, has been a surveyor with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care since 2014.

Infection control was the most cited area plaguing ambulatory healthcare in 2016, but The Joint Commission's Infection Control Specialist Lisa Waldowski shared methods to address it in Ambulatory Buzz.

Here are seven outpatient facilities that earned accreditation or certification in May 2017.