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Portal addresses environmental challenges
The Joint Commission and the American Society for Healthcare Engineering have launched a Physical Environment Portal to provide free online resources and tools for healthcare facilities to be compliant with the eight most challenging Life Safety and Environment of Care standards.
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CMS addresses false fingernails and immediate-use sterilization
In a letter from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to state survey agency directors, the agency spells out changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Infection Control Surveyor Worksheet and its Manual Instructions for areas including artificial fingernails and immediate use steam sterilization.
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Follow these standards, director recommends for outpatient surgery programs
What should outpatient surgery managers do when it comes to multi-dose vials? Adhere to national recognized guidelines, recommends Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, of Washington, OK, director of accreditation and survey readiness for Surgical Care Affiliates.
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What do you do about multi-dose vials when you have a drug shortage?
Drug shortages are increasing, so outpatient surgery programs must develop strategies for dealing with them, advises Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, of Washington, OK, director of accreditation and survey readiness for Surgical Care Affiliates.
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Outpatient surgery managers are in a tough place regarding how to handle multiple-dose vials
When it comes to the sensitive issue of using one vial on one patient, do you feel as if you’re in a no-win position? If so, you’re not alone.
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Program aims to improve geriatric surgical care
The American College of Surgeons, with the John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City, will conduct a four-year initiative that it says will lead to improved care of older surgical patients through a standards and verification program for hospitals.
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Anesthesiologist ordered to pay $500,000 after patient’s smartphone records insults
A Virginia jury ordered an anesthesiologist and her practice to pay a patient $500,000 for disparaging remarks made during surgery and a false diagnosis on his chart. The man might never have known about the offenses if he had not accidentally recorded the encounter on his smartphone.
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Warning! Smartphone recordings could be a liability risk for your facility
Smartphones are everywhere, and it has become increasingly common for patients to record their encounters with clinicians, usually so they can review the medication instructions or other information that they might not remember clearly.
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How to address management company complaints
Having an outside professional manage your staff and services is a neato, hip, and cool solution! Yay! Problem solved! … Or is it just beginning?
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Comments solicited on office-based cataract surgery
In its proposed 2016 Medicare fee schedule regulation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is soliciting information regarding the advisability of paying for cataract surgery in the office-based surgical suite, according to the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society.