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ed out that bronchoscopy suites must be maintained at negative air pressure to eliminate the spread of infectious agents like tuberculosis through the air. Western Mary-land, which Ms. Mills says only performs about 30 bronchoscopies per year, scheduled its procedures as the days' last cases and flipped the room from positive to negative air pressure. No good, said the surveyors.
"We do less than 30 bronchoscopies a year in the OR and they expect you to have 1 room dedicated to this procedure for the whole year," says Ms. Mills. "That is highly impractical and very costly to let an OR be idle for 335 days out of the year."
Head-scratching
dings
Ms. Mills is hardly the only administrator with an interesting ding story to tell.
Casey Mc-Farland, MHA, administrator
