Month: May 2013

I would like to take this opportunity to explain to you and demonstrate with a photo the full height partition (FIRE WALL) in the surgery center setting.  This is applicable for the surgery center certification Medicare deem status requirement.  The code dictates as follows, “The ASC provides a recovery area separated (by full-height partitions)…including the waiting room…

If you have cords or cables running through the full height partition (Fire Wall), you want to ensure that the wall is properly sealed.  What happens is this!   After the surgery center construction has been completed technology companies come in i.e. phone & communications company’s to install phone and dictation transcription lines and computers and unfortunately…