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While it is important for home health agencies to prepare to handle a flu pandemic, there are other infection control issues that agencies face more today than in past years.
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Health care spending growth in the United States slowed for the third consecutive year in 2005; and The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the elimination of the 2007 late enrollment penalty for any beneficiary eligible for the low-income subsidy for a Part D plan.
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When staff at the Hospice of Chattanooga in Tennessee provide wound care, they work to help the patient recover a sense of wholeness.
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All home health agencies have policies to prevent the spread of infection but with recent focus on the threat of a pandemic, home health managers need to look more closely at how well prepared their agency will be ...
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It was mostly good news in a long-awaited report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) analyzing costs at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).1
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The board of directors of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) recently adopted revisions to its standards. Changes include:
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One way to make sure your outpatient surgery program is covering all of its bases to prevent patient falls is to carefully review accreditation standards and National Safety Patient Goals, says Jeanne Linda, RHIT, CPMSM, CPHQ, director of medical staff services and quality review at San Leandro (CA) Surgery Center.
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A total of 113 cases of toxic anterior segment syndrome (TASS) were evaluated by the TASS task force set up by the Fairfax, VA-based American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) since the increased incidence of TASS that began in early 2006.
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A good competency assessment program for an outpatient surgery program should encompass skills that relate to each employee's job and specific patient populations served and should apply to all employees, according to experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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The biggest challenge for outpatient centers is having the anesthesiologists, anesthetists, sedation nurses, circulating nurses, and post-anesthesia care nurses who have the knowledge and experience to care for sedated pediatric patients, says Randall M. Clark, MD, chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA's) Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia.