Here are reports featuring 16 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. 22-Aug. 26.
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Need an update on comings and goings in the surgery center industry? Here are 10 must-read articles from the week of Aug. 22.Good news for surgery centers — HHS made another step toward overturning CMS' same-day surgery limitation.
A family practice in Dayton, Ohio, has been fined $10,500 as part of a settlement with OSHA relating to violations in areas including sharps safety, infection control and employee training, according to a Dayton Daily News report.
Nap Gary, COO of Regent Surgical Health in Westchester, Ill., lists the top five vulnerabilities of surgery centers in the next few years.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association is urging ASCs to submit comments to CMS to help efforts to delay the required data submission included in the CMS proposal for a mandatory ASC quality reporting program, according to a news release from…
The National Transitions of Care Coalition Advisory Task Force has published a free, downloadable transitions of care checklist.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official announced on Tuesday that CMS is developing a proposed rule to remove "obsolete or burdensome requirements" from the agency's regulatory structure, a move that could impact anesthesiology, according to an ASA…
Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., has settled a negligence lawsuit involving a newborn's death for $1.5 million, according to a Morning Call report.
A psychotherapeutic method known as BATHE (Background, Affect, Trouble, Handling and Empathy) could improve patient satisfaction in the pre-operative evaluation by anesthesiologists, according to a study published in the Aug. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
The urological catheters market is expected to surpass $3 billion by 2017, according to a report released by Global Industry Analysts.