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Outpatient surgery providers who want to improve their safety record should follow these six tips, based on a list of suggestions published by authors of a study on safety errors in otorhinolaryngology.
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While outpatient surgery providers often are fierce competitors, some providers are finding multiple advantages in sharing equipment, supplies, and even names of potential employees with each other. Here are some of the strategies that have paid off for same-day surgery providers.
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With the focus on patient safety in the general media, it would be natural for a provider to promote its own patient safety statistics and efforts to set itself apart from competitors in the marketplace. That is not the case in Madison, WI, where hospitals and medical groups work together to address patient safety issues.
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A recent federal report offers what some sources say is the most significant development in years in the ongoing battle over certificate of need (CON) and in what some same-day surgery providers consider to be an unlevel playing field in health care. The report contends state CON laws are an anticompetitive barrier to entering the health care marketplace.
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How to keep your surgery program alive and well. It always seems as if there are obstacles that get in our way when we try to do our job. Below are some interesting roadblocks that your peers are facing. You are not alone out there!
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Setting up an ambulatory surgery center is a complicated process in the best of circumstances, but when your same-day surgery center is a single-specialty center that handles pain management procedures, there are challenges not faced by other same-day surgery managers, says experts interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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The construction is complete; you have your occupancy certificate; and youre ready to start taking patients. Unfortunately, you have no payer contracts and no license, and you cant obtain any until youre accredited. What are your options?
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As program manager for consumer health education at The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Diane C. Moyer, MS, RN, is responsible for the development, review, and revision of the patient education materials.
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Hospitals and health care workers have gone to great effort to understand the patient privacy rules, but more needs to be done to educate the public, according to some health care providers.
