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AAAHC President and CEO John Burke plans to step down in 2015, ending his stewardship of a premier health care accreditation association after a tenure of 18 successful years. “I’ve always enjoyed the challenge of growing, or even building a new organization,” Burke...
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Accreditation standards are a hot topic for OR Today readers and health care professionals, especially when an expert presents a webinar on the subject. A recent webinar in the OR Today series “AAAHC Accreditation Standards Updates for 2015” presented by Ray Grundman,...
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By Jack Egnatinsky, MD You will notice that I put the word “department” in quotes in the headline, because what constitutes a department responsible for sterilization and disinfection of instruments and other devices is often an enigma to me when I do accreditation...
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Why Quality Outcomes are in the Spotlight In 2008, an outbreak of hepatitis C in patients treated at a GI center in Nevada placed infection control practices in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in the national spotlight. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
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OR Today [ORT]: I’ve never heard of Acreditas Global. Jack Egnatinsky (JE): That doesn’t surprise me; we’ve been operating under that banner for less than a year. But it’s the new name for AAAHC International. AAAHC is a leading brand name in the U.S., but it didn’t...
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by Geoffrey Charlton-Perrin What’s that you say? I’m mistaken; you don’t have a marketing department? Allow me to set you straight. You may be a nurse whose primary function is caring for patients. You may be a physician whose best work is done in the OR. You may be...
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