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

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ASC Focus November-December 2020

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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Departments

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


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Digital Debut

ASC Community Suffers Tragic Loss

NOVEMBER 2020

Ann Shimek

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


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Majority of ASC Supporters Retain Their Congressional Seats

NOVEMBER 2020

While the November 3 general election has not yet provided a definitive answer on which party will control the United States Senate and a number of races remain outstanding in the US House of Representatives, the general contours of the election and its results are clear.


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Focus on Members

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

Kelly Hobbs

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

—Kelly Hobbs, RN, Outpatient CareCenter

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Names in the News

Envision Sends Clinicians to Texas as Part of National COVID-19 Response

NOVEMBER 2020

Envision Healthcare Corporation of Nashville, Tennessee, owner of Amsurg, sent 80 clinicians to El Paso and Lubbock, Texas, to provide additional clinical support and expertise as these communities and the state face a surge in COVID-19 patients, according to a November 17 press release.



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