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Patients and their families want to feel comfortable, informed, and respected when they come to your facility for surgery, and your ability to make them feel that way is reflected in your patient satisfaction scores.
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Twelve people were evacuated, and three were treated for eye irritation when acid leaked from cleaning equipment at an operating room in St. Vincents Hospital Melbourne in Fitzroy, Australia. OR staff were setting up for surgery when they noticed that peracetic acid had leaked from sterilization equipment.
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The University provides employees with information and training to ensure they are mindful of the hazards of chemicals present in their work area. Awareness Training is made available at New Hire Orientation before the employees initial work assignment begins.
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Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, WA, has been fined $45,000 by Washington state for workplace violations related to a formalin spill last summer in the sterile processing area of the outpatient surgery center. The violations included lack of adequate equipment, such as respirators, and inadequate training for employees wiping up the liquid.
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Surgery centers performing 5,000 or more cases per year showed operating costs of $582.65 per case in 2004, compared with operating costs of $985.03 per case for centers that performed 1,999 or fewer cases per year, according to a new report from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) in Englewood, CO.
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How would you like to go from receiving no payment increases from one of your payers to receiving rate increases of 3% to 11% four years in a row? Sound impossible? Not for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in Ohio, which became proactive in educating their workers compensation board after receiving no payment increases for three years in a row.
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Two of your surgeons want you to purchase an expensive piece of technology, but youre wary because youre unsure how much they will use it. What should you do?
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Imagine managing your household budget with paychecks that were two, three, or four months late. How would you pay your mortgage, buy your groceries, or feed your family?
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Getting surgeons to operate out of your ORs shouldnt be an issue. Surgery is up everywhere, and while 200 new surgery centers are under construction right now, there is not a glut of places where surgeons can operate.