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Don’t Let Contractors Sink Your Surgery Practice: OBS Vendor Oversight and QAPI Integration, Part 2
When you run an office‐based surgery (OBS) practice, balancing overall management with care delivery details is an ongoing challenge…
Documentation Issues Drive Sleep Survey Deficiencies
Surveyors find gaps in compliance. It’s their job to help you see what may have become obscured in day-to-day activity…
Tackling Hospice Accreditation Challenges
Surveyors find gaps in compliance. It’s their job to help you see what may have become obscured in day-to-day activity…
Be Prepared for Medicare NPE Validation Visits – Part 5: Handling Issues
The last installment of our series about NPE validation visits explores what happens after your site visit and steps to take if…
Understanding Cold Chain Shipping
ACHC pharmacy surveyors visit all types of pharmacies every day. We see independent pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, and large corporate pharmacies. Regardless of…
Accreditation Theater: The Illusion of Rigor in Healthcare Accreditation
In the post-9/11 era, the term “Security Theater” emerged to describe over-the-top yet ineffective airport security procedures designed more to make travelers feel safe than to actually increase safety. Today, healthcare accreditation faces its own version…