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Same-day surgery programs accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will no longer be able to prepare for a specific survey date in the next few years because the Joint Commission will conduct all regular accreditation surveys on an unannounced basis beginning in January 2006.
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20% of respondents to last years Same-Day Surgery Reader Survey said that morale is their most challenging problem, which means morale tied with documentation/paperwork as the second biggest challenge overall.
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This is the second in a two-part series that looks at patient satisfaction scores for freestanding and hospital-based same-day surgery programs. Last month, we looked at overall scores and key issues for all same-day surgery programs. This month, we will look at areas of greatest opportunity for improvement for each type of program.
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Same-day surgery staff members point with pride to their turnover times, numbers of procedures handled during a day, and outstanding clinical outcomes, but patients and their family members notice things such as waiting room reading material, noisy children, and their own hunger.
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The Northern Michigan Operating Room Education Network will offer a free webcast on wrong-site or wrong-body part surgery in june.
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If you dont assess patients preoperatively for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), you run the risk of spreading the potentially fatal disease in your facility, infectious disease experts warn.
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Why am I waiting so long? Its one comment that staff members always can expect to hear from patients and family members, say experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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Gynecare Worldwide, a division of Ethicon of Somerville, NJ, has voluntarily withdrawn Gynecare Intergel Adhesion Prevention Solution from the market and is urging customers to immediately stop using this product.
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The list of approved procedures for the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) is free at last! Leaders in the field have been calling for the updated list of ASC-approved procedures, which was last changed in 1995. Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally responded.
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Stephen Earnhart answers some common questions about physician-to-physician joint ventures, hospital and physician mergers, and similar arrangements.
