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If your block booking of procedures is working for you great! You are one of the few. Pat yourself on the back, and go have lunch. If, however, you are among the majority of us, read on.
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Question: As a consultant, you specialize in helping ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) get in compliance with accreditation and licensing.
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Ten years ago, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its revised Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Standard.
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With Medicare's 2009 change in the definition of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC), the door opened for keeping patients up to 23 hours and 59 minutes.
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Researchers report that, compared with conventional sedation, balanced propofol sedation (BPS) using propofol with midazolam and meperidine provided higher provider satisfaction, better patient cooperation, and similar adverse event profiles in patients undergoing therapeutic endoscopic procedures.
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Six new reports issued by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC Institute), a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), offer insights to enhance the quality and efficiency of some of the most common outpatient procedures.
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Some health care facilities are finding that video cameras inside and outside the facility are allowing them to reduce crime and maintain security staffing even as the facility grows.
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Many ambulatory surgery programs are accustomed to using a specific size of vials for hydromorphone, but they have been forced by what is being described as the worst drug shortage ever to convert to vials twice the normal size due to a shortage of their customary vials.
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More health care workers responded to this season's push for influenza vaccination by rolling up their sleeves and getting the vaccine. By mid-November, 56% reported having gotten the vaccine and 7% said they definitely planned to get the vaccine, according to a web-based survey conducted for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 68% of hospital employees had received the vaccine, and another 5% said they definitely intended to be vaccinated, for a total of 73%.
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Caffeine. You know how you feel when you are one cup of coffee over the line? Everything is jumbled and irritating, and you just want to lash out at someone! What an uncomfortable feeling that is, for you and for those around you (as I have been told...). We see it with the surgeons, staff, anesthesia, front desk staff seemingly everyone is wired just a bit too tight.
