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Checking Temperature, Humidity and Airflow Daily
By Sandra Jones, CASC, CPHRM, LHRM, CHCQM, FHFMA
Ambulatory Strategies Inc.
[email protected]
With increased emphasis on the physical environment and its impact on patient and staff safety, more surveyors are concentrating on the monitoring of humidity, temperature, and what you do when humidity and temperature fall out of range and ventilation is not flowing in the direction and intensity as required. Specific areas of a health care facility are designed to have negative pressure while other areas are designed for positive pressure. |
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By Sandra Jones, Ambulatory Strategies Inc.
Question:
I heard there was a revised CMS infection control worksheet. What is new and where do I get the worksheet?
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By Sandra Jones, Ambulatory Strategies Inc.
[email protected]
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My doctors want to use a medication which is very expensive for a procedure. They heard at a physicians’ meeting that they could write a prescription for the patients to get the medication at a pharmacy where the patients would pay for it. Then the patients would be instructed to bring the medication to the surgery center where staff would administer it. Is this an acceptable practice? What about possible drug contamination if the patient opens it before arriving at the surgery center? What other things should I be concerned about?
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Following the update to the regulations governing ambulatory surgery centers in South Carolina this past summer, SCASCA members brought to attention a new requirement which requires ASCs to perform an annual TB risk assessment. This requirement is found in the ASC regulations, R.61-91, Section 1505.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) deadline for submitting data online is September 30, 2015 for ASC-6, ASC-7, ASC-8, ASC-9, and ASC-10*
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