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A surgery center opens in a community, and rumors are spread about the quality of care provided by the physicians there.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will publish a separate standards manual for ambulatory surgery centers that will become effective in January 2007.
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Medication reconciliation, labeling medications, staff competency, and Life Safety Code requirements were all topics upon which surveyors focused for organizations surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health-care Organizations in the past six months.
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Ambulatory programs' compliance rate for 13 of the 16 applicable National Safety Patient Goals exceeded 93% in 2005. However, the remaining three goals met compliance requirements less than 89% of the time.
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Candy stripers and pink ladies have been delivering flowers and mail to hospital patients for as long as anyone can remember, but today's volunteers are moving into other areas of the hospital where they can help outpatient surgery staff with many tasks.
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Question: Many of our surgeons pledged a certain number of cases they would do when we built our ambulatory surgery center last year.
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The creation of an "Access Center" to handle interhospital transfer coordination and unscheduled admissions at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK, has vastly improved the movement of patients into beds.
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Three years ago, the average length of stay (LOS) for admitted ED patients was about 7.5 hours at the 17th Street campus of New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC. Today, it is down to just more than five hours.
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A Six Sigma initiative to improve care for ventilator patients has decreased ventilators days by more than 50% at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL.