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This month, our special focus is on saving money and increasing revenue in outpatient surgery.
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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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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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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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The first study of low back injection for pain management by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), found eight common factors among organizations with shortest procedure times:
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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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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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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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It was a busy Friday in September at the Farmington Surgery Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Patients were recovering from anesthesia.
