Same-Day Surgery 2002-12-01

JCAHO is turning your world upside down with you reporting deficiencies

Submit your organizations deficiencies to your accreditation organization? Thats exactly what the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is expecting you to do after a self-assessment halfway through your three-year accreditation cycle. Youll also have to submit a plan to correct the deficiencies.

Grow your own nurses for your facility’s OR

Its easy to say that attracting more students to nursing programs will help address the nursing shortage in the future, but how do you inspire high school students?

Teleconference requires upfront planning

By using the Internet, the same-day surgery staff at Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI, was able to broadcast a rotator cuff surgery to 140 high schools students and their teachers at seven school sites.

It’s not theoretical: This disaster plan worked

Every same-day surgery program has a plan to deal with emergencies such as fires, but no one wants to have to use it, especially with more than 100 people in the building and eight patients in the ORs. It is nice to know, however, that one such plan worked when needed.

Your emergency plan may not include some ‘little’ things

While no one wants to experience a fire, it is an opportunity to evaluate how well the emergency plan works and what small changes might improve it.

Same-Day Surgery Manager: Tracking changes can provide warning

Surgery centers are busy. Theres no question about that. But they are also big business, and someone needs to keep track of the business end. It takes constant monitoring to stay on the right track.

Med/mal contracts offered to ASCs, surgical hospitals

James G. Parker Insurance Associates in Fresno, CA, has negotiated exclusive terms and conditions for ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals to obtain medical malpractice insurance.

Hospitals and ASCs see increases for 2003

The final rule for the hospital outpatient prospective payment system provides a congressionally mandated 3.5% inflationary update to hospitals Medicare outpatient payment rates for FY 2003. Here is a summary from the American Hospital Association.

Same-Day Surgery 2002 Index

A listing by subject category of all articles published in Same-Day Surgery newsletter in 2002.

Smallpox vaccinations imminent for hospitals

American Health Consultants is offering "Imminent Smallpox Vaccinations in Hospitals: Consequences for You and Your Facility," a 90-minute audio conference Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 2-3:30 p.m. EST.

Same-Day Surgery – December 1, 2002

December 1, 2002