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Marketing Your ASC in the COVID-19 Era

Play up your strengths, share your new safety precautions with patients

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Marketing Your ASC in the COVID-19 Era

Play up your strengths, share your new safety precautions with patients

Collaboration Key to Infection Prevention

Responsibilities can be divvied up among team members

Improve ASC Outcomes Through Environmental Hygiene

Assemble a multidisciplinary team, follow evidence-based guidelines and use the right tools

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Digital Debut

CMS Releases 2021 Final Medicare Payment Rule

DECEMBER 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the 2021 final payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments on December 2.

ASC Community Suffers Tragic Loss

NOVEMBER 2020

Ann Shimek, RN, CASC, senior vice president and chief clinical officer at Surgery Partners, passed away on November 25.

What measures do you use in your infection prevention and control assessment tool?

"We focus on hand hygiene, safe injection practices, decontamination/sterile processing and environment of care . . ."

—Kelly Hobbs, RN, Outpatient CareCenter

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AAAHC Publishes Allergy Documentation Benchmarking Study

DECEMBER 2020

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care of Skokie, Illinois, published a new Allergy Benchmarking study that underscores the importance of correctly documenting patients’ allergies, according to a recent press release.

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Marketing Your ASC in the COVID-19 Era

Play up your strengths, share your new safety precautions with patients

Marketing Your ASC in the COVID-19 Era

Play up your strengths, share your new safety precautions with patients

Collaboration Key to Infection Prevention

Responsibilities can be divvied up among team members

Improve ASC Outcomes Through Environmental Hygiene

Assemble a multidisciplinary team, follow evidence-based guidelines and use the right tools

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Staying Safe and Keeping Patients Informed During a Pandemic

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

Onward and Upward

AS I SEE IT

Implement this Preventive Strategy, Save a Life

COMPLIANCE

Establish a Respiratory Protection Program

DOING BUSINESS

Tips for Increasing Patient Safety during a Pandemic

TECHNOLOGY

Air-Cleaning Options for Facility Hygiene

INFECTION PREVENTION

A Day in the (Current) Life of an ASC Infection Preventionist

REGULATORY REVIEW

ASCA Advocacy in the Pandemic

ADVOCACY SPOTLIGHT

Review of the 116th Congress

ASCA NEWS

Renew Your ASCA Membership Today

WEB CRAWL

Visit ASCA’s COVID-19 Resource Center

CMS Releases 2021 Final Medicare Payment Rule

ASC Community Suffers Tragic Loss

What measures do you use in your infection prevention and control assessment tool?

AAAHC Publishes Allergy Documentation Benchmarking Study