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Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP, is president of Sheldon S. Sones and Associates, a pharmacy and accreditation consulting firm based in Newington, Conn. Q: We currently have clonidine po in our code cart. If I delete it from the code…
Brian Brown, regional vice president of operations of Meridian Surgical Partners, identifies five ASC physician statistics to track and benchmark and shares some insight into what surgery centers should do with the data.
Cindy A. King RN, CPHQ, is director of clinical, quality and compliance for Health Inventures. Q: I am the clinical coordinator at an ASC in Massachusetts. We are a state-licensed, Medicare-certified and AAAHC-accredited facility. Is it required for us…
Beth LaBouyer, RN, CNOR, executive director of California Ambulatory Surgery Association, and Debbie Mack, RN, CNOR, CASC, immediate past president of CASA and vice president of operations at Chicago-based National Surgical Hospitals, discuss six practices California ASCs can adopt right…
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Talks of a possible plea agreement in the case against a Linwood, N.J., vascular surgeon have stalled, according to a Press of Atlantic City news report.