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Prior Auths Continue Delaying Care; Serious Adverse Events Reported
American Medical Association president laments lack of progress on an issue that may be putting lives at stake.
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Department Cuts Wait Times to Under 2 Minutes — With Fewer Registration Errors
A department won the day by finally embracing readily available software solutions.
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Patient Access Tracks Metrics Regarding Financial Experience
The patient’s financial experience has become extremely important to patient access departments, but data are not easy to collect. Learn about various tactics departments are using to close the gap.
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Tips to Help Collect Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
This information collected at registration is for patients’ benefit. It is a way to identify the population the hospital serves, compare outcomes, and find areas that need improvement. When patients and registrars understand this, the process is easier.
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Easier to Ask for Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data if Registrars Know Why
Hospitals want to show care processes and outcomes are not different based on patient race or ethnicity. Facilities do that by collect the data, and then stratifying the whole range of hospital quality measures by race and ethnicity.
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Congress Considers Legislation Addressing Healthcare Provider Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed historic burdens on already-taxed frontline clinicians.
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Update and Quick Tips on Improving Medication Reconciliation
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing drug shortages, particularly for generic drugs, as people are stockpiling medication. Stockpiling can make medication reconciliation more challenging for surgery centers as they work to meet related accreditation requirements.
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Joint Commission’s Patient Safety Goals Emphasize Surgical Site Infections
An overview of the latest revisions.
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AAAHC’s Refreshed Standards Focus on Medications, Site Marking
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care is focusing on site marking and high alert/confused drug name medications as part of new standards set to take effect on Nov. 1.
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Need a Quality Improvement Project for the Fall? Examine Center’s COVID-19 Response
COVID-19 gives accredited surgery centers both a challenge and an opportunity: Ensuring all policies and procedures are in line with state, federal, and other infection prevention requirements concerning the pandemic.