ASCA recently sent a letter to CMS, providing comments on Medicare's quality reporting program for ASCs, contained in the agency's proposed 2013 inpatient prospective payment system rule.
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Comprehensive spine and pain management practices must include several key components to care for patients: behavioral therapy, functional rehabilitation and interventional care. These components should be coordinated for each individual patient to optimize treatment success.
Here are 10 clinical and operational statistics on low back injections in surgery centers, according to a 2011 AAAHC clinical study of the procedure, including results from 45 organizations that performed a combined total of more than 55,000 procedures annually.
David Thoene is the founder and managing director of Medical Surgical Partners, an ambulatory surgery center management and development company based in Auburn, Calif.
Hospitals and health systems are standardizing processes to reliably meet quality and cost goals over time. Covenant Health in Lubbock, Texas, has created clinical excellence teams to identify variation and establish evidence-based standards to reduce this variation and improve outcomes.…
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Bedford Laboratories has issued a voluntary recall for a single lot of its 'Vecuronium Bromide for injection' product, according to an FDA news release.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles will use a federal grant to study how the use of copper could help reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections.
SourceMedical has announced that Oak and Main Surgical Center in Vineland, N.J., an affiliate of South Jersey Healthcare, has selected the company's Vision OnDemand cloud-based management and EHR system.
The Hand Hygiene Resource Center — a project of the Saint Raphael Healthcare System and John M. Boyce, MD, in New Haven, Conn. — offers a free, downloadable checklist of considerations when healthcare providers are selecting hand rubs.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement offers a free, downloadable instrument to help healthcare organizations assess healthcare team vitality.