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10 Top Patient Safety Issues in 2012 Linda Homan, BSN, CIC, clinical and professional services for Ecolab, Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers, and Anne Dean of The ADA Group share 10…

ASC CMS Quality Measure Reporting: Why, What, When, Where & How By now, almost everyone in the ASC industry is aware of the new CMS quality measure reporting requirements. Click to continue » Back to the Basics: 6 Core Concepts…

Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, president of The Joint Commission and president of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, provides commentary in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research on the issue of "Quality of care: how…

The North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety offers several resources designed to prevent healthcare-acquired infections, including central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and MRSA.

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist intended to help healthcare provides maintain quality in hospital ICUs on a daily basis.

A Kentucky senate panel yesterday heard testimony on a bill aiming to curb pain pill abuse in the state, according to a Louisville Courier-Journal report.

Endo Pharmaceuticals will undergo a rebranding initiative to expand from its core pain medicine business under the new name of Endo Health Solutions, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.

Some Houston hospitals are now paying higher costs due to drug shortages, according to a Houston Business Journal report.

Healthcare centers and hospitals with unused prescriptions can turn to nonprofit startup Sirum for help, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.

Amerinet, a national healthcare solutions organization, has announced it has signed an agreement with Currie Medical Specialties for intermittent pneumatic compression garments, according to an Amerinet news release.