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HFAP Changes Standards After Updated Life Safety Code Rules
ASCs must meet environmental safety standards, but they do not always put the most knowledgeable people in charge of this task, which could result in a big mistake.
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Ready for That Survey? Here are Some Helpful Tips
Here’s what everyone about to be surveyed has in common: Fear.
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Message to Surgery Industry: Here Are the Things I Notice
I have worked in the surgery industry for four decades and during that time, I have noticed things that perhaps others have not. The following are some of my observations, with which you may or may not agree.
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Revisit Staff’s Hand Hygiene to Address Infection Control
Take May 5 — World Hand Hygiene Day — to make sure infection control and hand hygiene rules and practices are up to date, incorporating both regulatory and advisory guidelines.
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Create Sound Financial Plan to Carry ASC Through 2017
Strategic planning is a little-recognized talent that surgery centers should develop if they hope to achieve their goals and prepare for future growth.
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Study Data Before Making Workflow or Productivity Changes
The first step to improving efficiency and productivity is to collect metrics and employee workflow habits.
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With a Smart Focus, ASC Leader Spins Gold from Inventory Changes
A focus on smarter inventory purchases and changing physician habits can reap significant savings for an ASC.
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Small ASC Doubles, But Experiences Few Growing Pains
As an ASC grows, a key strategy to its success is focusing on staff, staying sensitive to their need for work-life balance and keeping lines of communication open.
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In the Year of the Rooster, Best ASC Strategy Is Focus On Self
In an uncertain healthcare climate, ambulatory surgery centers can focus on what can be controlled by working to improve the organization’s productivity and efficiency.
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Better Mousetrap Ideas for 2017
The outpatient surgery market is ever-changing, and staying up to date is not always easy.