Same-Day Surgery – October 1, 2009
October 1, 2009
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Health reform raises more questions than answers — what should you do?
While the details of health care reform were uncertain at press time, one point is clear: Change will be coming to outpatient surgery regardless, and providers need to be prepared. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager: What can you reform in your program?
Interesting things going on out there, aren't they? Town meeting riots, "death panels," trillion-dollar budgets, "evil businesses." As a clinician, a business owner, and a health care consumer (I broke my foot skydiving a few weeks ago), I've got to tell you: I am OK with the system as it is . . . almost. -
NY mandates: HCWs get shots for the seasonal flu
In a likely prelude to a battle over mandating a swine flu vaccine, the New York State Health Department overrode nursing union protests recently in enacting an emergency regulation requiring seasonal flu shots for health care workers (HCWs). -
SDS Accreditation Update: With Jan. 1 deadline bearing down, are you ready to comply with NPSG on infections?
Outpatient surgery managers in hospitals, surgery centers, and offices still have a lot of questions about The Joint Commission's (TJC's) National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on reducing the risk of health care-acquired infections, despite the fact that this goal must be fully implemented in a few short months. -
SDS Accreditation Update: 19 practices ID'd that reduce cataract times
A new report has identified 19 practices that reduce facility times for ambulatory centers performing cataract extraction with lens insertion. -
With HIN1 vaccine shortage expected, highest-risk groups go to front of line
With a vaccine shortage projected for novel H1N1 influenza A, only the highest priority groups are likely to be offered the shot when initial lots are cleared for distribution this fall. -
Did facilities do enough to protect staff from H1N1?
The outbreak of a novel H1N1 virus in the spring was a colossal pandemic preparedness drill for a future virus or for a stronger resurgence of the strain this fall.