October 26, 2016 Accreditation News – Volume 8, Issue 4
Don’t Let ASP Bite For the past years, there has been an ongoing effort to implement Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASP) at all levels of care. The implementation of the ASP has now become an element of the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) survey process, and thus has also become a standard with The Joint Commission (TJC) and other accrediting organizations. Each hospital, long-term care, ambulatory care, and home-care organization, or for that matter, any agency that prescribes antibiotics, should develop a program that will meet [...]