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Can’t afford a new surgery center? Maybe your competitors can help you
Rather than having the expense of each opening an outpatient surgery center, three healthcare organization in Nashua, NH, created a joint-venture center. -
Technology helps cut readmission rates
With the help of personalized recorded discharge information and educational videos available to patients by telephone or computer, Cullman (AL) Regional Hospital has reduced 30-day readmissions by 15% and increased scores on the discharge section of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) by 63%. -
Implementation delayed of 1 quality measure
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will delay implementation of the new quality reporting measure ASC-11, Cataracts: Improvement in Patients Visual Function within 90 Days Following Cataract Surgery, until Jan. 1, 2015, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA). -
HHS confirms billions of cost savings tied to ASCs
In a just-released report, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that outpatient surgical procedures that do not pose significant risk to patients performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) have saved Medicare more than $1 billion in each of the last several years. -
Is nursing a profession or merely a role?
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Don’t waste dollars on useless automation
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How to manage clinical path variance data
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Critical Path Networks-Stroke Facts
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States put case managers’ clinical qualifications on trial
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New Hampshire denials: What really happened?