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When you update your policies to address sexual harassment, change them to prohibit all forms of unlawful harassment, advises Brian A. Lapps Jr., JD, member at Waller Lansden in Nashville, TN. Lapps, along with E. Brent Hill, JD, also a member at Waller Lansden, spoke at the most recent annual meeting of the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association.
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With repeated offenses on physician harassment of staff, consider sending a formal letter saying a physicians behavior is not acceptable, suggests Anita S. Lambert-Gale, RN, MES, vice president of clinical operations at Nashville, TN-based HealthMark Partners, which co-owns and manages surgery centers with physicians and hospitals.
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Why do most of us not have maids that come in and clean our home? Too expensive, most of us would say. Others may say it is not necessary, but generally we would rather do it ourselves and save that money for other occasions, right?
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has changed the Medicare list of procedures approved to be performed in ambulatory surgery centers, according to the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association.
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Although outpatient surgery managers often focus on avoiding wrong-site surgery, they should be equally concerned about delays in treatment and operative/post-op complications, which together cause sentinel events that are reported more often than wrong-site surgery.
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Emergency preparedness becomes a more important part of the accreditation survey, according to revisions made to the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Cares 2006 standards.
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Organizations accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) consistently struggle with the credentialing and the privileging standards, says Stephen Kaufman, RN, senior director of accreditation at the AAAHC.
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Although the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations begins unannounced surveys for all organizations in 2006, it does not mean that random unannounced surveys will end.
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An anesthesiologist is charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct after two patients say he assaulted them while they were awaiting outpatient surgery.1
