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  Amerinet

 A leading national healthcare group purchasing organization (gpo)

that partners with acute and alternate care providers to reduce costs

and improve quality

For several years, IFASC has maintained an agreement

with Amerinet that benefits our ASC organization with a small

degree of revenue any time that a member ASC does business with

Amerinet. None of this "share back" is of any expense to the member

ASC, so please do keep this thought in mind ( and, Thank-You ).

Note: Bobbie Smith is the Amerinet rep for Indiana.

Bobbie.Smith@

amerinet-gpo.com

Vol 1N, Issue #12

     December 7, 2011

 the ISDH  "Public Health Matters" 

                                    Newsletter

The ISDH sent out its first edition of the new quarterly electronic newsletter, "Public Health Matters" on December 6, 2011.  In that publication on page 5 under Updates to the Indiana Administrative Code, in paragraph 3 it states that ASCs are required by LSA#11-102, a hospital reporting rule for healthcare associated infections, to report its infections.  Randy Snyder, Director of Acute Care Services, verified that this is not the case and that LSA#11-102 applies to hospitals only.  

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ASCs Safe Surgery Checklist Requirement Effective January 1, 2012: As part of the new Medicare quality reporting program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will ask ASCs if they used a safe surgery checklist for the entire 2012 calendar year and will then publish that information on the internet. While ASCs that answer "no" will not be financially penalized by CMS, having a "no" answer publicized may create concerns from potential patients or referring physicians.

To be able to answer "yes," an ASC must have a safe surgery checklist in place as of January 1, 2012 and use it the entire year. ASCs may use any checklist as long as it addresses effective communication and safe surgery practices in each of the three perioperative periods, where applicable: prior to administering anesthesia, prior to the start of a procedure and prior to the patient leaving the operating room.

The following organizations provide sample safe surgery checklists:

• World Health Organization
• AORN

Please share this information with your state association members to ensure nationwide industry compliance of this new safe surgery checklist requirement. If you have any questions, please contact Jonathan Beal at jbeal@ascassociation.org 

In remembrance, recognition, and realization, IFASC, with the following items, completes our publication this signal day of seven December.

I.     The year, 1971 Montage created to mark

        anniversary thirty.

II.    An extensive account of health care measures

        undertaken to deal with events of that day,

        seven December nineteen forty-one.

III.   Guardian and repository of knowledge and

         history of that day, and times prior and past,

         in our country's Service as it stood front line

         that seventh December day seventy years ago.

I  

 Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941

When the attack ended shortly before 10:00 a.m., less than two hours after it began, the American forces has paid a fearful price. Twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet were sunk or damaged: the battleships USS Arizona (BB-39), USS California (BB-44), USS Maryland (BB-46), USS Nevada (BB-36), USS Oklahoma (BB-37), USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), USS Tennessee (BB-43) and USS West Virginia (BB-48); cruisers USS Helena (CL-50), USS Honolulu (CL-48) and USS Raleigh (CL-7); the destroyers USS Cassin (DD-372), USS Downes (DD-375), USS Helm (DD-388) and USS Shaw (DD-373); seaplane tender USS Curtiss (AV-4); target ship (ex-battleship) USS Utah (AG-16); repair ship USS Vestal (AR-4); minelayer USS Oglala (CM-4); tug USS Sotoyomo (YT-9); and Floating Drydock Number 2. Aircraft losses were 188 destroyed and 159 damaged, the majority hit before the had a chance to take off. American dead numbered 2,403. That figure included 68 civilians, most of them killed by improperly fused anti-aircraft shells landing in Honolulu. There were 1,178 military and civilian wounded.

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm

II

Pearl Harbor Navy Medical Activities

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-5.htm

III

 Naval History & Heritage Command

The Naval History & Heritage Command is the official history program of the Department of the Navy. Its lineage dates back to 1800 with the founding of the Navy Department Library by President John Adams. The Command now includes a museum, art gallery, research library, archives, underwater archaeology and curator as well as research and writing programs. The Command's origins form a rich history in themselves.

http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html