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Technology’s Role in Getting Retained Items to Zero
Healthcare providers come to work every day to help and heal. When there’s an unexpected outcome — especially one that harms a patient — they tend to be...
Put a Stop to Pressure Injuries From the Start
Your surgeon and OR team perform a textbook surgery that leaves the patient with only the tiniest of incisions at the surgical site. Unfortunately, that same patient also...
Going Smoke-Free: What I Wish I Knew
Achieving smoke-free ORs in the procedural setting at PIH Health Downey (Calif.) Hospital was one of the hardest practice challenges I’ve led...
Guest Editor: No Easy Path to Safety
For healthcare providers, the shared primary goal is clear: Keeping their patients and their team members safe and free from harm....
Behind Closed Doors: ‘Like a Rock’
I understand the need to advertise, I really do. But it still annoys me. Especially on local broadcasting where a program scheduled for 30 minutes gives you...
Infection Prevention: Navigating CMS’s Infection Control Worksheet
If you aren’t intimately familiar with the CMS Infection Control (IC) worksheet, you’ll probably want to make it a top priority — and the sooner, the better....
Leadership: Healthy Perioperative Work Environments Matter
Establishing and maintaining a healthy work environment (HWE) is vital for the well-being of healthcare professionals and the delivery of quality patient care....
Education & Training: The Case for Sterile Processing Certification
Every October, National Sterile Processing Week takes place (Oct. 8 to 14 this year). It’s an opportunity for those who care for surgical instruments and equipment to be...
Editor’s Page: Unsettling Images
You pull into a spacious parking lot, easily find a spot and make the short walk to the brand new, state-of-the-art surgery center where you’ve scheduled your first...
Ideas That Work: Aqua Wristbands Make Misgendering Virtually Impossible
Being correctly identified and addressed by healthcare staff is every patient’s right. Unfortunately, it’s fairly common for transgender and gender-diverse patients...
Ideas That Work: S Is for Safety
An acronym is a great way to remember something important. It can also make the process of speaking up when you are concerned about a potential safety issue...
Ideas That Work: International Infection Prevention Week Tips
Want to participate in International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW) — it’s Oct. 15-21 — but haven’t had the time to come up with anything?
Ideas That Work: Bringing Specialty Leads to Central Sterile Processing
Back in our March issue, we featured an Idea That Works regarding the establishment of nurse specialty leads at WellSpan Apple Hill Surgical Center in York, Pa....
Investing in Big Screens Could Mean Big Outcomes
If a patient with a small shoulder wound would have been seen by surgeon J. Gabriel Horneff III, MD, FAAOS, earlier in his career when he was armed with 1K imaging...
Trend to Watch: Data Revolution
Your ASC generates and collects an enormous amount of data every day, but are you putting it to work to improve your practice? That’s the basic question posed by...
Can You Pass This Infection Prevention Quiz?
From meticulous surface disinfection policies to rigorous skin prepping protocols, surgical leaders have their hands full when it comes to making sure their facilities’...
Orthopedic Advances to Watch
It’s an exciting time to be in the orthopedics industry. When you combine innovations in sensor-based wearable technologies, smart implants and more accessible...
A Nose for Reducing SSIs
Finding an easy-to-implement, cost-effective and widely accepted patient-approved infection prevention protocol to help prevent surgical site infections...
Perfecting Anesthesia and Analgesia for Total Joints Cases
Charles Hannon, MD, MBA, an orthopedic surgeon with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is a leading researcher on pain management before, during and after hip...
Murder in Memphis
When Benjamin M. Mauck, MD, was fatally gunned down in a Collierville, Tenn., exam room in July, allegedly by a troubled patient, the Memphis-area community lost...