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As part of a hospitalwide focus on improvement, the surgical services department at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) in St. Louis, MO, began looking into its supply-chain processes. And it wasn't pretty.
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By getting financial staff to understand the clinician's point of view and finding a way to work together, Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA, has been able to capture millions in additional revenue, including $10 million just from the operating rooms.
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Are you wondering how health care reform is going to impact your outpatient surgery program? Join the crowd.
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This month, our special focus is on saving money and increasing revenue in outpatient surgery.
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Want to make more money next month? Look at your "variable costs" this month! Many professionals tend to overlook the amount of revenue that is generated by simply not spending money. The treasure chest lies within your own grasp.
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Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta, NJ, has used a three-part philosophy process to achieve significant savings, including a drastic reduction in overtime for preop nurses and a $10,000 savings in an equipment purchase.
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The winner of the Healthcare Administrator Award from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is the chief executive officer of an ambulatory surgery center.
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In its previous "Recommended Practice for Surgical Attire," the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) didn't recommend home laundering, but for those facilities that did it, it offered some guidance on how to do it as safely as possible.
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A just-released study showing that smokers have significantly more complications post-surgery than non-smokers, including a higher death rate, coupled with new Medicare reimbursement for physicians who provide counseling to prevent tobacco use for outpatients and hospitalized patients have outpatient surgery managers taking a new look at smoking cessation programs.
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Like most, I was inspired by the rescue of the Chilean miners in October. I felt an enormous urge to accomplish something significant, to finish projects I had left dangling or follow up on other issues that individually weren't a big deal but collectively were.