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Office-Based Surgery: Let’s Talk Trash! What’s the Big Deal About Boxes?
Cardboard shipping boxes are ubiquitous. There’s likely one in or near your workspace at this moment. It’s probably harmless. But a corrugated cardboard box that makes its way into a semi-restricted and restricted area of your surgical services department is another story – a very serious story. You need a plan.
Pharmacy: Standards Require Credential Verification
Verifying pharmacy personnel credentials is important to ensure compliance with payor requirements and government regulations.
Changes to Know for Clinical Laboratories
COVID-19 tests and cholera testing remain current topics. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a bulletin about a COVID-19 test recall and has approved four more at-home antigen tests.
Demonstrating Separate Services for Home Infusion Therapy Accreditation
For home infusion therapy (HIT) suppliers, the Medicare Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) apply to an organization as a whole — including all clients/patients and not just Medicare beneficiaries.
Office-Based Surgery: It’s Always Time to Evaluate Quality and Performance
A look at the past can help improve the present and ensure a better future. And that holds true for an office-based surgery center seeking the best patient outcomes. Past, present, and future combine in the development of a crucial Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement, or QAPI, plan.
Privacy and Safety: Identify Patients At Risk
Patients have the right to receive care in a safe setting, and hospitals must identify patients who may be at risk of self-harm or harm to others. Maintaining a safe environment is a critical part of protecting patients and others