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In 2004, the Wilmette, IL-based Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) revised standards to identify the need for specific personnel to be available until the patient was medically and physically discharged.
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If your organization was found to have a high rate of surgical infections, you could expect to face bad publicity, potential malpractice lawsuits, and major problems with the Joint Commission. But are the data telling an accurate story?
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New York City may have a reputation as a fast-paced metropolis where most people are too busy to give you the time of day, but the emergency department (ED) at Jack D. Weiler Hospital, one of three EDs in Bronxs Montefiore Medical Center, has won over patients with an approach focused on friendliness and TLC.
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A series of multidisciplinary initiatives has resulted in a 1.3-day decrease in length of stay (LOS) at Hackensack (NJ) University Medical Center (HUMC).
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Tragic errors caused by administration of vincristine into the subarachnoid space of chemotherapy patients continue to occur, even though these wrong-route errors are preventable, according to a recent Sentinel Event Alert issued by JCAHO.
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Focusing on a blame-free environment to promote a culture of patient safety is important; however, it also can have an unintended and undesirable effect on accountability.
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Are you worried about the certified health care engineer surveyor who will be scrutinizing your organizations life safety code compliance during your next JCAHO survey? If so, be aware that the attention paid to life safety and Environment of Care (EC) may be even more intense than you expect.
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Taco trucks are inspected twice a year in California, while ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are inspected an average of once every 12 years in that state. That eye-catching news introduced a Washington Post story published in July that went on to say that under federal rules, surgical centers across the country are required to be inspected once every six years, but many are not.
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Wrong code. Out-of-date referral. Inaccurate patient information. All three of these items are simple pieces of information that can cause big problems for your same-day surgery program because they all lead to denials of your claims.
