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A recent change in federal law is making professional certification more financially accessible for individuals to pursue and maintain professional credentials. The Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act, signed into law July 4, 2025, as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, expands 529 savings plans to include many professional certifications. This update shifts these accounts from college savings tools to broader career savings plans. (United States Congress, 2025)
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Ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) will experience meaningful expansion this year, but the growth will be slow and gradual. Market dynamics and government policies will play an important role and result in an uneven growth. The healthcare industry as a whole is in transition with growing emphasis on cost-effective, high-quality and patient-centric care delivered outside traditional hospital settings. Consequently, ASCs have emerged as one of the most dynamic segments of modern healthcare delivery.
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It is a familiar scene during a survey: a surveyor asks to review the generator test logs. The administrator proudly presents the binder, explaining that their facility’s emergency power system runs on natural gas rather than diesel. The surveyor nods, flips through the pages, and asks, “Can you show me how you document your monthly testing?” A pause follows. The documentation looks different from what most surveyors expect, and that’s where uncertainty begins.
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On the Below the Hospital podcast, host Garland-Rhea Grisby Sr. of Sutter Health interviewed Kathleen McMullen, APIC fellow and executive director of infection prevention and sterilization at Mercy, about the science that informs best practices for processing ultrasound probes.
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This month I would like to highlight the findings of a recent literature review article by Ada Xie, Jed Duff and Judy Munday on the topic of perioperative nursing shortages.1 An integrative review of the literature gives us, “… a broader summary of the literature and includes findings from a range of research designs” to develop “… a holistic understanding of the topic, present the state of the science …” on a given topic.2
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Ultraviolet Devices Inc. (UVDI), a developer of advanced ultraviolet disinfection technology, has launched its new V-MIX upper-room air disinfection technology and it will be featured at the AHR Expo in Las Vegas.
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