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Medical History & Physical Requirements for Ambulatory Healthcare
The Joint Commission has revised their Medical History and Physical requirements for Office-Based Surgery and Ambulatory Health Care ...
Read More Is Your Staff Competent and Can You Prove It?
The definition of competent is having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. Being competent ...
Read More Glucometer Infection Control Practices
In their May 2021 Newsletter, The Joint Commission relayed increasing concerns regarding observations of staff not following proper ...
Read More Enzymatic Spraying of Instruments at Point of Use
You have finished the procedure, now what's next? Prior to sending instruments to Sterile Processing, it is important ...
Read More Newest Guidance from CMS
On May 7th, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) released their Interpretive Guidelines for the Interoperability ...
Read More New Performance Improvement Requirements for Critical Access Hospitals
In September of 2019, CMS issued the Burden Reduction Final Rule that reset some of the requirements and ...
Read More Managing Your Medical Staff’s OPPE and FPPE
In 2008, The Joint Commission (TJC) implemented a new standard, MS.08.01.03, requiring detailed evaluation of practitioners’ professional performance ...
Read More AISLE WIDTH – Use your Tape Measure
The Joint Commission published in their April issue of EC News; a short article of significance that may ...
Read More Is your Hand Sanitizer Safe?
During the early days of the pandemic, finding a source of hand sanitizer was a challenge, particularly for ...
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