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SDS Accreditation Update: JCAHO to publish separate ASC standards
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will publish a separate standards manual for ambulatory surgery centers that will become effective in January 2007. -
SDS Accreditation Update: Surveyors want up-to-date info, detail in documents
Medication reconciliation, labeling medications, staff competency, and Life Safety Code requirements were all topics upon which surveyors focused for organizations surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health-care Organizations in the past six months. -
SDS Accreditation Update: Three National Patient Safety Goals present compliance challenge in outpatient surgery
Ambulatory programs' compliance rate for 13 of the 16 applicable National Safety Patient Goals exceeded 93% in 2005. However, the remaining three goals met compliance requirements less than 89% of the time. -
Volunteers add extra touch in outpatient surgery
Candy stripers and pink ladies have been delivering flowers and mail to hospital patients for as long as anyone can remember, but today's volunteers are moving into other areas of the hospital where they can help outpatient surgery staff with many tasks. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager: Staff and physician woes, plus question on OR size
Question: Many of our surgeons pledged a certain number of cases they would do when we built our ambulatory surgery center last year. -
Bioterrorism Watch: Fear is the foe when anthrax spores are found within hospital walls
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Same-Day Surgery Manager: ‘You’re not the boss of me’ — or are you? Part II
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Bioterrorism Watch: Stanford sets the standard for bioterrorism planning
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