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The final version of the recently proposed changes to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) takes effect Nov. 10.
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You and your facility waited more than a year for the final revisions to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), but are they really good news?
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Under the final rule for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), most off-campus hospital surgery centers no longer will fall under EMTALA.
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Same-day surgery programs preparing for a Medicare survey can find help in complying with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2000 Life Safety Code in a document focused on same-day settings from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
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The days of accreditation surveyors flipping through policy books and interviewing management team members may not be completely gone, but the majority of information gathered about a same-day surgery program today comes from the surveyors review of patient charts.
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As with all high-volume procedures, same-day surgery managers continuously look for ways to increase efficiency and improve patient care, and there is always room for improvement.
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For those of us blessed(?) with children, setting limits on acceptable behavior is nothing new. We have been doing it since the little darlings were born.
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Buying equipment and servicing it can be a major drain on your programs finances. But you can save a significant amount of money by being actively involved in purchasing and maintaining equipment, says Jerry Henderson, RN, CNOR, CASC, executive director of SurgiCenter of Baltimore in Owings Mills, MD.
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Most same-day surgery providers agree that propofol offers great advantages in outpatient surgery: It hastens patient recovery and is easy to titrate.