Same-Day Surgery – January 1, 2010
January 1, 2010
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Same-Day Surgery offers advice to save you thousands of dollars
In this special cost-saving issue, we've talked to outpatient surgery programs around the country to find out their best tips. In our cover package, we tell you how you can be environmentally friendly and save thousands in the process. -
Going green can help environment, boost your facility's bottom line
A primary focus of outpatient surgery managers used to be the bottom line. Now many are finding themselves aiming to succeed at the "triple bottom line": people, planet, and profit, says Ravindra Gupta, MD, hospitalist and co-chair of the Sustainability Committee, Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA. -
Recycling, reprocessing can save you big bucks
Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA, has targeted recycling, with great success. At one hospital alone, Inova Fairfax, recycling saved about $37,000 in 2008, according to Seema Wadhwa, LEED AP, sustainability engineer at Inova. -
Administrator boosts revenues, cut costs
Northwest Michigan Surgery Center in Traverse City was able to increase its coffers by that mount by renegotiating insurance contracts and carving out implants for underreimbursed cases. Jim Stilley, FACHE, CASC, CEO at the ambulatory surgery center (ASC). -
Hospital saves millions with lots of small changes
Stanford (CA) Hospital & Clinics has saved more than $14 million by evaluating 20,000 items bought from 6,000 vendors and dozens of standard operating procedures, and much of that savings has come from the hospital's ambulatory surgery facilities. -
Facility saves with checklist of best practices
(In this first part of a two-part series on innovative care and pricing plans being used for outpatient surgery, we tell you how Geisinger Health System has used a checklist of best practices to save money, plus implemented a price guarantee for members of its health plan. Next month, we'll tell you how another facility has used a price guarantee effectively.) -
Surgery center saves $80,000 in six months
Jersey Shore Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) in Summer's Point, NJ, reduced wasteful supplies and inventory by more than $80,000 in six months by taking a few simple steps that could be replicated by most outpatient surgery programs. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager: How do surgery mangers determine what is value?
There are many cost-saving ideas, salary information, and ways to enhance revenue in this issue of Same-Day Surgery more value that SDS is bringing to you. But what really is value? How do we measure it? -
Free infections webinar from Joint Commission
Are training funds tight? Free educational material is available online. -
ECRI Institute offers free technology resource
ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, announces the release of its list of top seven technologies for 2010 to pay close attention to now. -
Think ahead, act early to avoid conflicts
It is never too early to think ahead to potential co-defendant conflicts. -
2009 Salary Survey Results: With economy showing improvement, make yourself stand out from the crowd
Good news! Jobs at hospitals (public and private) and ambulatory health care services rank Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, among the best recession-proof jobs, according to a recently published book.