Texas Health Surgery Center Arlington (FKA Arlington Day Surgery Center)
Arlington, Texas 76012
Preventing and Responding to Patient Harm
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| Effective Leadership to Prevent Errors |
Surgery centers should take meaningful steps to raise awareness about patient safety, hold leadership accountable for reducing unsafe practices, provide resources to implement a patient safety program, and develop systems and structures to support action to improve patient safety. |
 ACHIEVED THE STANDARD |
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This surgery center scored 120.00 out of 120.00 possible points. |
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| Staff Work Together to Prevent Errors |
Surgery centers should have assessed their culture of safety and held leadership accountable for implementing policies, procedures, and staff education to improve the culture of safety. |
ACHIEVED THE STANDARD |
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This surgery center scored 120.00 out of 120.00 possible points. |
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| Handwashing |
Surgery centers should regularly monitor hand hygiene practices for everyone interacting with patients, and give feedback to ensure compliance. Surgery centers foster a culture of good hand hygiene, offers training and education, and have provided equipment, such as paper towels, soap dispensers, and hand sanitizer. |
 CONSIDERABLE ACHIEVEMENT |
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| Responding to Never Events |
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. |
 LIMITED ACHIEVEMENT |
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| Tracking and Reporting Accidents and Infections |
Surgery centers should track and report all applicable accidents such as burns, falls, errors, hospital admissions and surgical site infections, to a national database. |
LIMITED ACHIEVEMENT |
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Medication Safety
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| Medication Documentation for Elective Outpatient Surgery Patients |
Surgery centers should document 90% or more of home medications, visit medications, and allergies/adverse reaction(s) in the patients’ clinical record. |
ACHIEVED THE STANDARD |
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Elective Outpatient Surgery - Adult
Ophthalmology (Eyes)
| Procedure | Number of Procedures Performed Annually | |
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| Anterior Segment Eye Procedures | 3,088 | |
| Posterior Segment Eye Procedures | 1,187 | |
| Other Eye Procedures | 145 |
Care for Elective Outpatient Surgery Patients
| Measure name | Leapfrog’s Standard | Progress Towards Meeting Leapfrog’s Standard |
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| Elective Outpatient Surgery Recovery Staffing - Adult |
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. |
ACHIEVED THE STANDARD |
| Elective Outpatient Surgery Recovery Staffing - Pediatric |
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. |
DOES NOT APPLY |
| Safe Surgery Checklist - Elective Outpatient Surgery |
Surgery centers should go through all the elements of a complete safe surgery checklist on all patients every time a procedure is performed. |
ACHIEVED THE STANDARD |
| Experience of Patients Undergoing Elective Outpatient Surgery |
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. |
LIMITED ACHIEVEMENT |
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| Patient Consent for Elective Outpatient Surgery |
The surgery center provides written surgical consent forms the day of their procedure. |
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| Patient Consent to Anesthesia for Elective Outpatient Surgery |
The surgery center provides written anesthesia consent forms the day of their procedure. |
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| Patient Selection |
The surgery center has a screening protocol to determine whether a patient’s procedure can safely be performed on an outpatient basis, and the protocol includes the following components:
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| Board Certification - Physician |
All (100%) physicians at this surgery center who are authorized to perform procedures are board certified or board eligible. |
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| Board Certification - Anesthesiologist |
All (100%) of those providing anesthesia at this surgery center who are authorized to perform procedures are board certified or board eligible. |
Texas Health Surgery Center Arlington (FKA Arlington Day Surgery Center)
918 N Davis Dr
Arlington, Texas 76012
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