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At Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a military hospital operated by the Army and the Defense Department in Landstuhl, Germany, medical-surgical teams save the lives every day of warriors wounded in Afghanistan and, until recently, saved troops wounded in Iraq. But that's only part of their success.
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Accrediting agencies do not provide a blueprint for writing a strategic plan. However, The Joint Commission and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) expect hospital, ambulatory surgery center (ASC), and office-based surgery administrators to devote time to planning.
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The ECRI Institute has said robotics should be on your radar for 2012, according to its top 10 watch list for CEOs, CFOs, and COOs1 (See complete list, below.) The list included one chapter with the provocative title, "Are costly robot wars coming to your operating room?
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Can you believe that 2012 is almost 25% over! It just started, for heaven's sake! Myself, I'm still struggling with issues from 2011.
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At Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, there is a standard eight-step process for writing strategic plans.
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If ambulatory surgery center (ASC) managers want to ace the Medicare survey, they should make sure staff members understand what will be assessed and current best practices for the standards.
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Fall prevention efforts usually target those thought most likely to fall, but does that leave the other patients at risk if no one is paying attention to their potential for falling?
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Many outpatient surgery managers might think that the situation of a clinician sexually assaulting an incapacitated patient is so unlikely that they don't need to prepare for such an event. However, those managers would be mistaken, according to sources interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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