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Anyone can make a list of medications dictated by a patient, but to fully comply with The Joint Commission's requirement to reconcile medications taken by your patient, your documentation needs to address more than just the name of the medication.
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Patient safety goals and all standards related to patient safety top the list of items focused upon by The Joint Commission surveyors, according to outpatient managers surveyed during recent months.
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You have switched from razors to clippers to remove hair, you developed strict, scientifically based protocols for administration of prophylactic antibiotics, and your staff scrub their hands in the proper manner. Although all of these steps reduce the risk of infection in the operating room, have you checked your staff's nails?
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Compliance with The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 3 in 2008 will require accredited organizations to pay close attention to their assessment and monitoring of patients who are on anticoagulation therapy.
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Do you and your staff have an extra 55 hours a year? That's the amount of time the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that you and your ambulatory surgery center (ASC) staff would spend complying with new and revised Conditions for Coverage (CfC) for ASCs.
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For the fist time since The Joint Commission began keeping records of sentinel events in 1996, wrong-site surgery has reached the No. 1 position over patient suicide in terms of cumulative data. There have been 552 reports of wrong-site surgery, yet it is viewed as an event that often is underreported.
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Mistakes involving patient classification and preauthorization of procedures are among a lengthy list of common financial errors made in the same-day surgery arena, says Bob Whipple, RNC, CCM, CCS, MHA, a Boston-based senior management consultant with ACS Healthcare Solutions.
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Hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) providers faces changes in the proposed 2008 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) that include bundling intraoperative services, among other services, into the payment for the associated ambulatory payment classification (APC).
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No, the sky isn't falling; at least that's the response of most ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leaders who have examined the first major overhaul of Medicare payments to surgery centers since the mid-1980s.