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Your First Step To Success
Contact Advantage early on in the planning stages of your ambulatory surgery center
(whether office based, one OR or four OR) so we can ensure that you don’t waste
time nor money in developing your vision.
Hands-On Service
Advantage provides hands-on, person-to-person service by experienced, qualified and
communicative professionals. Advantage ensures that you and your staff KNOW not
only what to expect when inspectors arrive but what to do moving forward. We talk and explain - a lot.
We Are Here For You
Longevity and Consistency. We’ve been doing this since 1990
so will be around when you have questions about standards or
policies or changes in CMS standards.
About Us
Advantage is dedicated to ambulatory care. We provide personalized care focused on studying the feasibility of, developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers including single and multi-specialty surgery centers, endoscopy and pain centers. We have successfully assisted more than 200 ambulatory/outpatient centers become accredited, certified and/or licensed. Let Advantage help you become successful in expanding your financial opportunities.
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Joint Commission/Medicare survey – Santa Ana, CA
A pleasure of a surveyor who was open to different ideas of how to approach standards so was not stuck on only their “way” of doing things. A fresh take. Surveyor had some great sayings, such as: “Can’t accept if you don’t inspect” – Surveyor was referring to nurses receiving medications from someone else. This reduces medication error in terms of wrong medication, wrong dose, expired medication, etc. I’ve seen…
READ MOREOn-Site Medicare (follow-up) inspection Beverly Hills, CA
Surveyor spent more time with the instrument and scrub techs than leadership. Techs MUST know CDC/AORN/WHO recommendations for specific procedures in cleaning, disinfection and sterilization. There must be justification for how instruments are prepared so KNOW manufacturers recommendations. If…
READ MOREOn-Site Initial Inspection/Joint Commission Marina Del Rey, CA
Surveyors from all accreditation agencies and some county departments of health inspectors are opting for very open-ended question. They are asking things like: How do you handle data management? Tell me how you integrate infection control into your QAPI program? In addition, they are very open about questioning non-leaders in the Center about emergency procedures (evacuation routes, CPR roles). They want to make sure that not only the Administrator, Director…
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Nov, 2013
On-Site Initial inspection – San Diego, CA
Another marathon. TJC surveyors are now big on asking open-ended questions. Of course, staff (nurses, techs and administrative types) are freaked out and respond as if they are being accused of abusing kittens. Then, the o-so-friendly surveyor says “I’m…
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Nov, 2013
On-Site Initial inspection – Pasadena , CA
Ten hours later . . . What is a peer? TJC has no standard saying what a peer is, but their FAQ says: The definition of a peer is someone from the same discipline with essentially equal qualifications. So, an anesthesiologist who works ten years with an ophthalmologist and sees how he/she works every day cannot provide a peer reference. Yet, someone who is in the same specialty yet gets…
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