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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.
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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.
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(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.)
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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.
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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?
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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.
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In next month's issue of Same-Day Surgery, we'll include our annual special focus on cost savings.
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Do you think surgical fires happen a lot less often than wrong-site surgery or retained instruments? Think again.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is considering a revision to its glutaraldehyde recommended exposure limit (REL) and has issued a Federal Register notice asking for information on glutaraldehyde research, use, safety training, and manufacture (edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-22299.htm).
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An Austin, TX, orthopedic surgeon has agreed that he and his staff will not deny or withhold medically appropriate treatment from patients solely because they are HIV-positive, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
