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There is an interesting thing happening, seemingly nationwide. Outpatient surgery is off way off! Some centers are reporting as much as a 23% decrease over last year.
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Geriatric patients can present a host of challenges in outpatient surgery.
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[Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part series in avoiding liability in contracting. In last month's issue we told you about how you can end up contracting with the wrong company and what your liability can be. In this issue, we give you specific steps to take to investigate vendors, and we offer a list of items to watch for in the contract. We also discuss accreditation requirements.]
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I go through 400-500 patient satisfaction surveys per month. Like you, I am relatively busy just getting through life, but these are 400 to 500 patients and their family taking time out of their lives to tell me how we are doing as a business. Regardless of what you might think, health care in 2010 is a business!
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Hamilton Ambulatory Surgery Center in Dalton, GA, has received the Summit Award from Press Ganey Associates for the fourth year in a row.
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Surgical blades, a surgical camera, and laparoscopes disappear over two years from a hospital. The culprit? A nurse who admitted to stealing more than $300,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies from the hospital and reselling them over the Internet.
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In the past 10 years, there have been about 100 settlements of self-referral and kickback between the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services and health care facilities. Twenty of these cases occurred in the past two years.
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[Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part series on a new guideline from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) regarding the management of providers who are infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In last month's issue, we gave you an overview of the guideline, which procedures are at greatest risk of transmission, and the recommendations for infected staff. In this issue, we further explain the new guidelines and discuss how to decide which workers to test.]
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A woman came in for breast implants and went under anesthesia. The silicone implants she had selected were not available; only saline ones were there.
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Well, this is a fine mess all us health care providers are all getting into isn't it? I mean, we have oil spills, the earthquakes, and volcanoes and various other sundries out there to make our lives more complicated and miserable.