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Compounding Pharmacy: Validating Your Shipping System
PCAB Accreditation Standards require an organization to ship pharmaceuticals in a manner that maintains appropriate sanitation, light, and temperature conditions.
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)
Compounding Pharmacy: Include All Staff in Survey Preparation
Pharmacies often rely on one person to be responsible for all accreditation survey preparations. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member.
Office-Based Surgery: Patient Comfort and Safety Can Be Found in the Air
Keeping patients comfortable and safe is part of high-quality health care. And that goes beyond medicines and procedures. Maintaining appropriate temperature, humidity, and airflow makes the environment comfortable and helps prevent infection. Your organization can use best practices to develop a monitoring program.
Understanding Emergency Readiness
Just a quick look at social media or at a news resource can make you keenly aware of the threats healthcare workers and patients could face from Mother Nature and human-caused incidents. With epidemics, extreme weather, active shooters, and so many other dangers, the best chance for a successful outcome will come with preparation.
PCAB: Do Your Part for a Successful Survey
Your survey for ACHC PCAB Accreditation is a collaborative effort between the Surveyor and your organization. Each is responsible for performing certain duties to collectively ensure a successful survey experience.