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Device sponsors and others often seek answers and input from Marti Benedict, RN, BSN, chief compliance officer for research at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY.
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A new report has identified 19 practices that reduce facility times for ambulatory centers performing cataract extraction with lens insertion.
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While the details of health care reform were uncertain at press time, one point is clear: Change will be coming to outpatient surgery regardless, and providers need to be prepared.
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In a likely prelude to a battle over mandating a swine flu vaccine, the New York State Health Department overrode nursing union protests recently in enacting an emergency regulation requiring seasonal flu shots for health care workers (HCWs).
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Outpatient surgery managers in hospitals, surgery centers, and offices still have a lot of questions about The Joint Commission's (TJC's) National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on reducing the risk of health care-acquired infections, despite the fact that this goal must be fully implemented in a few short months.
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With a vaccine shortage projected for novel H1N1 influenza A, only the highest priority groups are likely to be offered the shot when initial lots are cleared for distribution this fall.
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A comprehensive case management program at Desert Oasis Healthcare that provides care coordination for patients throughout the continuum keeps patients healthier and out of the hospital. And it's cost effective.
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"We don't say it is always easy to manage diabetes, but we do say that diabetes is a manageable disease," says Janis McWilliams, RN, MSN, CDE, BC-ADM, an advance practice diabetes specialist at the University of Pittsburgh (PA) Diabetes Institute.
