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Home Health: Plan Ahead for the End of the COVID-19 PHE
With the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ending soon, affected healthcare providers, including home health agencies with deemed status, will need to make adjustments as they prepare to restore normal operations.
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.
Pharmacy: Validating Your Shipping System
ACHC Pharmacy Accreditation Standards require an organization to ship pharmaceuticals in a manner that maintains appropriate sanitation, light, and temperature conditions.
Home Health: Meeting Requirements for Your Plan of Correction
Nearly all organizations surveyed for accreditation are cited for deficiencies. To address deficiencies, an organization must develop an effective Plan of Correction (POC) and submit it to ACHC before a final accreditation status is determined. This is the final step in the accreditation survey process.
Office-Based Surgery: Ensuring Anesthesia Machine Safety
When a patient must undergo a procedure that requires anesthesia, a crucial step in ensuring patient safety is to conduct a thorough check of the anesthesia machine to be certain the components are in proper working order. ACHC Standards address maintenance requirements. (article continues)
COVID-19 Tests Recalled and Others Approved; Cholera Review Urged
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.