Your Assurance of High Quality
The Centre, P.C. provides its own AAAASF accredited surgical facility, The Centre, LLC. The American Association of Accreditation for Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc. (AAAASF) provides an accreditation process that is the gold standard in assuring patients the highest level of safety and quality in outpatient surgical care. A voluntary process, AAAASF accreditation is a program that has received wide recognition from the medical community, state legislatures, state and national health care agencies, insurance companies and patients.

Stringent National Standards
To achieve this distinctive accreditation, The Centre, LLC had to meet the AAAASF’s stringent national standards for equipment operating safety, personnel and surgeon credentials. In particular, The Centre was evaluated in nine areas: general environment, operating room environment, policies and procedures, general safety in the facility, blood and medications, medical records, quality assessment/quality improvement, personnel and governance.

In these areas, The Centre, LLC showed that we:

• Comply with applicable local, state and federal regulations including fire safety, sanitation and building codes for the protection of patients and medical personnel.
• Adhere to federal laws and regulations affecting our operations, such as OSHA blood-borne pathogens standards, hazardous waste standards and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Utilize advanced instruments and monitoring devices for patient safety during surgery and in the recovery period.
• Allow surgery to be performed only by qualified surgeons who have privileges to perform the same surgical procedures in an accredited hospital.
• Provide for the administration of general anesthesia, when appropriate, by a board-certified or board-eligible anesthesiologist or a certified registered nurse anesthetist.

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