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Patti Moore, RN, director of River View Surgery Center in Lancaster, OH, perused with interest the January 2004 newsletter produced by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, which included a description of tracer methodology. Ten days later, her surgery center became the nation’s first freestanding ambulatory surgery center to undergo an unannounced survey conducted to test the unannounced process and the tracer methodology.

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