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Preparing for Joint Commission Survey Requires Chapter-and-verse Best Practices
If there’s one guiding philosophy for surgery centers undergoing accreditation to follow, it is this: It takes teamwork.
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New Jersey Surgery Centers Face Major Changes This Year
New Jersey’s new law about ASCs might change the state’s ASC landscape as hundreds of registered (but unlicensed) ASCs must decide whether they will apply for licensure by January 2019. If they do not apply, they may have to close their surgery operations or sell their companies.
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Patient Collection at the Door
Calculating patient responsibility is complex and time-consuming. One solution is to load a facility’s payer contracts into a cloud-based software tool that can manage any type of payer arrangement.
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TeamSTEPPS Concept Helps ASCs Improve Patient Safety
A program that started as a module used to train military helicopter pilots has been modified for surgery centers, which can help staff build communication and teamwork skills.
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Common Infection Control Findings During ASC Surveys
An ASC might follow processes that appear to be adequate or even best practices when it comes to infection prevention. Then, a surveyor visits, and a deficiency appears.
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Infection Prevention Best Practices
Infection prevention in surgery centers begins with action and commitment at the top. ASC leaders must commit to supporting the infection preventionists, staff education, monitoring reprocessing, disinfection, hand hygiene, surgical site infection prevention strategies, and other prevention activities.
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The Essential Components of an ASC Infection Control Program
Surgery centers will fulfill the requirements of an infection prevention program if they focus on all aspects regulators and accrediting agencies require.
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Infection Concerns Gain FDA Attention
The FDA has focused on scope cleaning in recent months, highlighting the potential for infections. The agency alerted healthcare providers to the risk of cross-contamination with some connectors used in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Regulators warned three duodenoscope manufacturers that they must comply with a federal order to conduct postmarket surveillance studies that assess duodenoscope reprocessing.
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Abstract and Commentary: Mindfulness and Hospital Employee Health
This effort to better understand the effect of brief mindfulness interventions on healthcare providers is a welcome approach to a poorly studied area of healthcare: how to best take care of the caregivers.
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The Shocking Suicide Rate in Female Veterinarians
Female veterinarians — the rising demographic in this field of medicine — have a fourfold higher suicide rate than their male colleagues, the CDC recently reported.