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Coordinating operating rooms, surgical equipment, and staff to come up with a surgery schedule that has no cancellations, few delays, and happy surgeons is a challenge.
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There are plenty of medications from which to choose for patients with acid reflux disease, but the medications don't work for all patients, while other patients want to eliminate the need to take daily medication.
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Statement: I heard you speak in Dallas a couple of months ago, and you said that anesthesia can help to make or break a surgical environment. I still am offended by that remark.
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A survey of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers by the American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC) examined ASC ownership trends between 2004 and 2006.
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How would you like to drop the number of cases pending against your program by more than 60%? A full disclosure policy that includes apologizing to patients and waiving charges on a case-by-case basis has had a dramatic impact on the outpatient surgery program and other departments at University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.
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Does your competency assessment program address age-, cultural-, and gender-specific competencies? Does your program address management and administrative issues?
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Intense feelings of anxiety and humiliation, not to mention fears of being sued or professionally censured, are extremely common. Not surprisingly, the appearances of defensive and self-protective strategies that urge concealment are common as well.
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It was mostly good news in a long-awaited report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) analyzing costs at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).1
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Leaders of the ambulatory surgery community are praising Congress for passing a provision that requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop quality reporting requirements for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient services.
