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A recent federal report offers what some sources say is the most significant development in years in the ongoing battle over certificate of need (CON) and in what some same-day surgery providers consider to be an unlevel playing field in health care. The report contends state CON laws are an anticompetitive barrier to entering the health care marketplace.
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With the focus on patient safety in the general media, it would be natural for a provider to promote its own patient safety statistics and efforts to set itself apart from competitors in the marketplace. That is not the case in Madison, WI, where hospitals and medical groups work together to address patient safety issues.
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While outpatient surgery providers often are fierce competitors, some providers are finding multiple advantages in sharing equipment, supplies, and even names of potential employees with each other. Here are some of the strategies that have paid off for same-day surgery providers.
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Outpatient surgery providers who want to improve their safety record should follow these six tips, based on a list of suggestions published by authors of a study on safety errors in otorhinolaryngology.
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A 7-year-old goes in for routine ear surgery and dies after receiving a dose of concentrated epinephrine. Surely this is an isolated case or is it? A recent survey of safety errors in otorhinolaryngology practice shows that of 466 responses, there were five cases of inadvertent injection or placement of 1:1,000 epinephrine.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has created a Hospital Standards Advisory Group to provide feedback to the Joint Commission on the hospital fields experience with revised standards, rationales, elements of performance, and scoring methodologies.
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Early this summer, several factors brought renewed attention to the possibility of terrorist attacks and appropriate responses on the part of the health care profession.
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The Washington, DC-based National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has released for public comment draft standards for Quality Plus, a new supplemental accreditation program it claims breaks new ground in content and intent.
