This is part of a series on the five ambulatory surgery center specialties to watch in 2012. The five specialties are gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedics and spine, pain management and urology. These specialties have a favorable outlook in terms of case…
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Kathy Martin is managing director of the GE PSO, part of GE Healthcare Performance Solutions. Q: Why did GE Healthcare consider it important to start a PSO? Kathy Martin: A focus on patient safety has been central to GE Healthcare's…
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare recently announced it accredited its 5,000th organization. Jack Egnatinsky, MD, president of the AAAHC board of directors, discusses the significance of this milestone, the importance of accreditation, where organizations have improved their quality care…
Melinda Malecki is system director of risk management for Cook County Health & Hospitals System based in Chicago. The organization recently joined the GE Healthcare Patient Safety Organization. Q: Why did Cook County consider it important to join a PSO?…
The Joint Commission has proposed revisions to is standards for its hospital accreditation program relating to patient flow issues and the safe care of patients awaiting admission or transfer, including patients with psychiatric emergencies, according to The Joint Commission website.
Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has announced it has released a new executive briefing titled "Collective Learning on Healthcare Reform," according to an Amerinet news release.
Shriners Hospital for Children in St. Louis said it will build an outpatient orthopedic surgery center instead of the seven-story, 40-bed acute care hospital originally planned for Central West End, according to a St. Louis Today report.
In an article published in the December 2011 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente shares the continuous improvement process used to attain its high quality outcomes.
The Measure Applications Partnership has released a list of quality measures currently being considered for adoption by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for its programs.
Healthcare facilities are right to be concerned about the path to ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation: Healthcare experts emphasize that providers have a lot of work to do to meet documentation requirements, adapt their software to the new codes and prepare for decreased…