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11 new procedures proposed for ASCs in 2016
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed to add 11 new procedures to the ASC list of payable procedures:
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Proposed Medicare payment rates released
<>In the 2016 proposed payment rule for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing a 1.1% effective rate update for ASCs. -
Participants in ASC pilot study share safety changes
Are you looking for ideas to improve your facility’s patient safety culture? Would you like to compare your safety culture to that of other ambulatory surgery centers?
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Bank robber lockdown holds lessons
Outpatient surgery managers can study the recent lockdown at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA, involving an escaped bank robber for lessons that might improve their own emergency planning.
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Shootings, other violence on the rise and pose major liability risks
Escaped murderer David Sweat recently was shot and captured after a three-week manhunt in New York. He was taken to Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone, NY, according to CNN. He later was moved to Albany Medical Center, where vascular surgery specialists and others were involved in his care, CNN said. -
Ebola vaccine highly effective in trials, but worker PPE education still critical
Initial reports of a highly effective Ebola vaccine trial may provide the final piece to douse the simmering, historic outbreak in West Africa.
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The Ebola effect: HCWs working in teams could protect co-workers, patients from other infections
It’s hard to write “silver lining” and “Ebola” in the same sentence, but something powerfully good could come out of the horrific outbreak: a new safety culture in U.S. hospitals that better protects healthcare workers and patients.
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Removing PPE incorrectly may be common problem
Fewer than one in six healthcare workers followed the correct recommendations for removal of PPE after patient care, likely contaminating themselves and increasing the risk of transmission to others, researchers report.
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Consumer group challenges FDA exclusion of chlorhexidine in antiseptic review
The Food and Drug Administration is being taken to task for a failure to include chlorhexidine in its recently announced plan to review the safety of active ingredients in antiseptics used in healthcare.
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FDA concerned about healthcare workers’ constant exposure to antiseptics
At any given time there must be well over a million nurses and other female healthcare workers of childbearing age protecting patients by killing transient bacteria on the hands with alcohol hand rubs.