Member Focus

Title: Administrator
Facility Name: Bend Surgery Center
City: Bend
State: Oregon
Length of time your facility has been an ASCA member: Five or more years

Do you require your surgeons to complete a minimum number of cases within a specified time frame to maintain their privileges? How many cases and over what period of time?

We do not, however, we require that each licensed practitioner document their education, training and experience, indicating a continuing ability to provide quality patient care services. Indication of volume of cases performed at other facilities would be considered in evaluating ongoing competence. The Medical Executive Committee could request additional documentation to demonstrate current professional competence as well.

Do you audit your janitorial and housekeeping staff? For what purpose?

We have both internal and contracted environmental service crews. We have checklists and overall monitoring on a daily, monthly and quarterly basis dependent on different areas within the facility. These checklists serve as audit tools to utilize in overall quality control management. We also utilize findings within those checklists as educational areas for improvement, as well as having an organized checklist to keep standards of our cleaning accessible to all members of our EVS [environmental services] team.