Several Joint Commission standards for hospitals have embarrassingly low compliance rates. Two Joint Commission experts — Jerry Gervais, CHFM, CHSP, an engineer and associate director in the Joint Commission's Standards Interpretation Group and Mary Carol Mooney, RN, MSN, senior associate…
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John D. Fanburg, an attorney for the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers, says surgery centers in the state are under attack on two fronts: from the state's Codey Law, which was amended this year, and by new payor…
According to the FDA, a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy is necessary for ustekinumab (STELARA) to ensure that the benefits of the drug outweigh the potential risks of serious infections and malignancy and reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLS), according to…
The Court of Appeals of Georgia denied a request of appeal filed by University Hospital and Doctors Hospital Surgery Center, clearing the way for Medical College of Georgia Physicians Practice Group Foundation to build an ambulatory surgery center in Columbia…
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program has announced new standards for the accreditation of ambulatory care and office-based surgery, according to an HFAP news release.
Two studies in the Dec. 2009 issue of Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, discuss how two heart disease treatments, low-dose aspirin and statin medications, may impact age-related macular degeneration risk and disease progression, according to an…
Ophthalmic Imaging Systems has announced that it has received 510(k) market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its OIS EyeScan, a portable, digital imaging device, according to a report by CNN Money.
New data from the FDA shows that when clopidogrel (Plavix), an anti-clotting medication, and omeprazole (Prilosec/Prilosec OTC), a proton pump inhibitor used to reduce stomach acid, are taken together, the effectiveness of clopidogrel is reduced, meaning patients at risk for…
A recent study published in the December issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery found that ambulatory surgical centers outperformed standard hospital-based surgical centers in certain quality-based performance areas for certain ENT procedures, according to a news release by…
Here are 22 statistics about GI/endoscopy in surgery centers.