Semmes Murphey Surgery Center

Surgery centers should have a never events policy that includes all nine (9) actions that should occur following a “never event,” which includes apologizing to the patient and not charging for costs associated with the never event. 

Surgery centers should track and report all applicable accidents such as burns, falls, errors, hospital admissions and surgical site infections, to a national database.

Surgery centers should document 90% or more of home medications, visit medications, and allergies/adverse reaction(s) in the patients’ clinical record.

Surgery centers should ensure that a specially certified clinician and at least one physician or nurse anesthetist are present and immediately available while an adult patient is present until discharge.

Surgery centers should ensure that a specially certified clinician and at least one physician or nurse anesthetist are present and immediately available while a pediatric patient is present until discharge.

Surgery centers should go through all the elements of a complete safe surgery checklist on all patients every time a procedure is performed.

Surgery centers should perform better than most on four (4) areas including: (a) facilities and staff (b) communication about the procedure, (c) patients’ overall rating of the facility, and (d) patients willingness to recommend the facility.