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Put Reprocessing Compliance on This Year’s To-do List
Surgery centers that fail to pay close attention to their reprocessing processes could end up causing dangerous — even fatal — infections. Although the rate of infection from endoscopy is low, it’s likely that some infections related to reprocessing problems are not reported because patients do not attribute their illness to a procedure they might have undergone several weeks earlier. Experts recommend creating site-specific reprocessing guidelines based on federal and/or other expert recommendations.
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Which Compliance Issues Might ASCs Focus on for 2018?
Same-Day Surgery asked for more information about compliance and regulations in 2018 in a Q&A with Gina Throneberry, RN, MBA, CASC, CNOR, director of education and clinical affairs at the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association in Alexandria, VA.
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How ASCs Can Avoid OSHA Citations
Surgery center staff must conduct research about and work proactively to comply with all federal, state, and local requirements, as well as accreditation standards. If attention to the Life Safety codes is lax, ambulatory surgery centers might experience code problems related to the National Fire Protection Association codes or OSHA regulations.
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Do Your Numbers Match?
When it comes to profit and loss statements, all too often we find that what we think the numbers are in a surgical area or freestanding center are not that way in the books, which an accountant or bookkeeper prepares. It is a big deal, regardless of awareness.
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How to Succeed at Succession Planning
ASC administrators might notice how difficult it is to fill perioperative nursing jobs. There are competing interests for bachelor’s degree nurses, and perioperative nursing has not been a priority in many schools. One researcher studying this issue has found that this is a problem throughout the surgery center nursing pipeline.
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Make Board Meetings More Efficient With Improved Agenda
The board meeting agenda holds the key to running meetings more efficiently and with fewer discussions going off the tracks.
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A Patient-centered QAPI Project
Patient experience is a good area to mine for a QAPI project in an ASC.
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A Blueprint for Starting the QAPI Process
The key to successfully launching quality improvement projects is to study the big picture by asking employees which problems to tackle first.
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ASCs Can Use QAPI Projects to Help Patient Safety, Processes
Quality assurance and performance improvement projects are a way to work toward every surgery center’s goal of providing safe, cost-effective, high-quality care.
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Checklists and Decision Trees
It’s the planning time of year for your facility. At our facility, we’re engaged in the following projects for 2018. These individual projects are diverse and they’re across the country.