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A recent report in the Infection Control and Healthcare Epidemiology journal emphasizes the necessity of influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel as a core patient safety practice that should be a condition of both initial and continued employment in healthcare facilities,…

Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula Surgery Center is featured in a report by Monterey County's The Herald for its quality patient care.

ASC Association and Ambulatory Surgery Foundation have assembled a final tribute to President Kathy Bryant, who is set to depart both organizations Aug. 31.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee has sent a letter to Donald Berwick, MD, administrator of CMS, with the Committee's comments on the proposed 2011 rule for ASC payments.

Rosa Genao, MD, a family practice physician, and her husband, Juan De Oleo, the owner of X-Press Center, a Detroit-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing injection and infusion therapies, have been convicted for their roles in a $2.3…

Mayo Clinic, the Florida Department of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working closely in Jacksonville, Fla., to access which patients treated at Mayo should proceed with follow-up testing after risk of exposure to hepatitis C,…

A growing number of bacteria have developed mechanisms which render them resistant to many of the antibiotics normally used for their treatment, and this antimicrobial resistance is being recognized as a global health issue that could reduce control over many…

John Burke, PhD, serves as executive vice president and CEO of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, a leader in ambulatory healthcare accreditation with nearly 5,000 organizations accredited nationwide. The AAAHC accredits a variety of ambulatory health care organizations,…

CMS Administrator Don Berwick, MD, has declined a request from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to provide a list people who donated to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which Dr. Berwick headed before his CMS appointment, according to the Hill.

An internal memo at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas outlines the hospital's plans to withhold information from its outside auditor, Deloitte & Touche, due to concerns that any documents released to the auditor could be subject to an OIG subpoena,…