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Are Joint Ventures With Hospitals Beneficial to Surgery Centers?
Ambulatory surgery centers can benefit from a joint venture with a health system, depending on how it is structured.
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Outpatient Surgery on Steroids
Feeding on chum-churned water, vendors are adding to the mix the availability of lower cost for the necessary equipment to perform a growing list of procedures outside the mothership. While the mainstream vendors are slow to lower costs, the secondary markets are jumping in with both feet to capture a piece of the expanding pie.
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Tips for Preventing Staff Stress, Burnout
Leaders can take various steps to prevent employees’ healthy stress from turning into counterproductive, or even destructive, stress and burnout.
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Preventing Nurse Burnout Starts with Understanding Causes
There are multiple factors that can contribute to nurse stress and burnout, including job frustration and overwork, poor work-life balance, substance use issues, emotional/family problems, and workplace bullying.
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It Takes an ASC to Cultivate Moral Resilience in Staff
The American Nurses Association recently published a draft call to action on cultivating moral resilience as an antidote to nurses’ and other clinicians’ 'moral suffering and distress.'
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Pharmacist Offers Tips on How ASCs Can Prevent Drug Diversion
Amid a nationwide opioid epidemic, ASCs are not immune to problems related to misuse of controlled substances. Drug diversion should be a chief concern.
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CMS Makes Regulatory Changes; ASCs Might Benefit From Trend
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed several surgery payment changes in recent months, suggesting that Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is following through on his stated goals of rolling back regulatory burdens for doctors.
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Create a Policy and Procedure Manual That Works and Is Survey-ready
The major problem ASCs encounter with creating policies and procedures is making these applicable to their facilities. The goal, particularly from an accreditation organization surveyor’s perspective, is for the P&Ps to be simple, direct, and thorough enough that employees could open them to the desired section and see exactly the policy they need to follow.
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AAAHC Develops Toolkit to Help ASCs, Others Prevent Opioid Abuse
Opioid prescriptions have declined some in the past year, but remain triple the number prescribed two decades ago, according to a new report by CDC.
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Study: Pediatric Patients Often Experience Pain, Exhibit Maladaptive Behavior Post-surgery
Young children undergoing ambulatory orthopedic, urology, general surgery, and otolaryngology surgical procedures frequently experience post-surgical pain and exhibit maladaptive behaviors, such as increased crying, difficulty with sleep, and acting out.