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AAAHC recently clarified requirements for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) or office-based surgery (OBS) facilities that are accredited by either the...

Sources:
  • Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC)
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers

A new statistical brief by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), published by the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) reports ...

Sources:
  • Miscellaneous
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals
FDA Updates
02/11/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Pressure Monitoring Device Recall: Medtroni...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

AAAHC released their Quality Roadmap in December, providing an analysis of standards compliance from data collected during 1,615 surveys conducted bet...

Sources:
  • Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC)
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Ambulatory Care

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a report with maternal mortality rates for 2023 based on data from the National...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Rural Health Clinics

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing a Health Advisory about a recently confirmed outbreak of Ebola disease in Uganda cause...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Telehealth,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Clinical Lab,
  • Pharmacy,
  • Rural Health Clinics
FDA Updates
02/05/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Continuous Ventilator Correction: Baxter He...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in partnership with international and U.S. organizations, released guidance to help org...

Sources:
  • Miscellaneous
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

According to the most recent information on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, the current status of the H5N1 virus (H5 bir...

Sources:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Telehealth,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Medical Office,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Clinical Lab,
  • Pharmacy,
  • Rural Health Clinics
FDA Updates
01/31/2025

The following is a list of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Gas Powered Emergency Resuscitator Recall: Mer...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced extension of recent reporting waivers related to recent natural disasters arou...

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

Last year, in response to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updates to Interpretive Guidelines for Care in a Safe Setting (CoP 482.13(c...

Sources:
  • National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (DNV),
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Relevant To:
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals,
  • Behavioral Health - Inpatient
FDA Updates
01/30/2025

The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities with Certain ...

Sources:
  • Food and Drug Administration
Relevant To:
  • All Healthcare Organizations

The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently published the results of a survey conducted by the Institute for Safe Medication Pract...

Sources:
  • Miscellaneous
Relevant To:
  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Urgent Care,
  • Dialysis Facilities,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Home Health,
  • Hospitals,
  • Long Term Care,
  • Ambulatory Care,
  • Office-Based Surgery,
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility,
  • Hospice,
  • Rural Health Clinics

The recent and ongoing disasters from Hurricane Helene and the wildfires in California have increased the need for some health care facilities to offe...

Sources:
  • The Joint Commission
Relevant To:
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals