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CDC, TJC Urge Providers to Up Their Game on Antibiotic Stewardship

Intermountain Healthcare helps smaller hospitals improve care, meet new standards through the use of telemedicine, added support.

How to Use the New Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice

Better known as MOON, it is an attempt by CMS to resolve confusion and avoid surprise patient charges related to observation stays.

Despite Variations, Evidence Provides Clear Road Map for Adult Patients Presenting with Acute Migraine

Obtaining a full patient history can help guide providers toward effective treatment and longer-term solutions.

Report Highlights Burden Frontline Providers Face in Recognizing, Preventing Sepsis

New data on infections and healthcare factors most commonly associated with sepsis should help providers focus their efforts toward future improvements.

Milwaukee Health System Leverages Telemedicine During Triage Process at Multiple ED Sites

Administrators take a page from other industries; aim to apply enterprise solutions to the emergency care delivery process.

Here are Some Sample Items From New HFAP Requirements

HFAP has released new environmental rules in its accreditation requirements for ASCs.

HFAP Changes Standards After Updated Life Safety Code Rules

ASCs must meet environmental safety standards, but they do not always put the most knowledgeable people in charge of this task, which could result in a big mistake.

Ready for That Survey? Here are Some Helpful Tips

Here’s what everyone about to be surveyed has in common: Fear.

Message to Surgery Industry: Here Are the Things I Notice

I have worked in the surgery industry for four decades and during that time, I have noticed things that perhaps others have not. The following are some of my observations, with which you may or may not agree.

Revisit Staff’s Hand Hygiene to Address Infection Control

Take May 5 — World Hand Hygiene Day — to make sure infection control and hand hygiene rules and practices are up to date, incorporating both regulatory and advisory guidelines.