Modern Healthcare October 22, 2019
In its first report of outpatient settings, the Leapfrog Group found some ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments fail to follow quality practices.
The organization found 1 in 3 centers didn’t have physicians or nursing staff who were all board-certified, according to the findings published Tuesday.
The Leapfrog Group received voluntary information from 321 ambulatory surgery centers and 1,141 hospital outpatient departments as part of its inaugural inclusion of these settings on its website that currently only displays data on safety of care at hospitals.
It decided to expand surveys to outpatient settings considering the proliferation of same-day procedures happening in the setting and a dearth of quality information available to consumers and employers.
“Over 60% of surgeries take...
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