Here are reports featuring five downloadable patient safety and staff education tools which were added to the Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control Database of Downloadable Patient Safety Tools & Resources during the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a part of the CDC, offers a free, nine-minute video featuring an interview with Diane Mawyer, a nurse whose life was changed by a sharps injury that infected her with hepatitis C.
The CDC provides a free, web-based hand hygiene training course.
The Niagara Health Quality Coalition has published the 2011 edition of its New York State Hospital Report Card along with a safety analysis, and 20 hospitals in the state have been named to the "Watch List" of hospitals with troubled…
A new committee has been formed in North Carolina to examine the state's certificate of need laws, according to a North Carolina Healthcare Report column and a news release from Rep. John Torbett (pdf).
A certificate of need application by Mission Hospital, based in Asheville, N.C., to relocate an endoscopy unit to a new outpatient center has been denied by state regulators, according to an Asheville Citizen-Times report.
Ambulatory surgery center management software company Mednet has announced the launching of a physician scheduling module which works in combination with the company's existing ASC management application OASIS, according to a news release from Mednet.
Access MediQuip, a national provider of surgical implant management solutions, is seeking a new client services manager.
Capital Health, based in Trenton, N.J., has raised $5.2 million in an equity offering for a new ambulatory surgery center in Hopewell, N.J., according to a Citybizlist Philadelphia report.
The VA National Center for Patient Safety has developed a free, downloadable pre-procedure evaluation template for procedures that require moderate sedation.