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Tip on easy way to reduce overtime
Your staffing costs might be keeping you up at night, but here is one simple tip that can save you significant money: Change the schedule of your pay period from Monday through Friday to Tuesday through Monday.
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In ambulatory surgery programs, money saved equals money earned
Some ambulatory surgery managers have a hard time seeing that money saved is money earned. Many hospitals, surgery centers, and surgeons’ offices focus so much effort on increasing revenue and not enough on controlling their expenses. Can and should you do both?
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Are concurrent surgeries a good tool to save time and money? Experts express caution
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has been the focus of controversy over the safety of concurrent surgeries and whether patients have a right to know when surgeons are dividing their attention. One patient safety leader says that the practice is not necessarily improper but should be monitored by management.
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Want to cut supply costs? Tell surgeons how they compare with their peers
The neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, and otolaryngology – head and neck surgery departments at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco had a 4% decrease in median surgical supply costs in six months through a price transparency initiative aimed at surgeons.
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Saving Money with Surgical First Assistants
Increasingly, outpatient surgeons are adding surgical first assistants as a tool to shorten their procedure times and add more cases.
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Survey Snapshot
In responding to the 2015 Same-Day Surgery Salary Survey, more than one-third (38.46%) of respondents saw pay increases of 1% to 3%.
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With staff shortages projected, you’ll need to stand out among surgery providers
Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news first? The good news is that the nursing shortage is not as bad as predicted several years ago. The bad news is that there still is a shortage projected.
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Supplement to anesthesia consensus statement
SmartTots has issued a supplement to its recent revised consensus statement on anesthesia and young children in response to a clinical trial’s preliminary outcome that found no difference in the developing brain between 2-year-olds who had undergone general anesthesia and those who had received regional anesthesia as infants.
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Elective surgery risk factor: post-hospital syndrome
A condition known as post- hospital syndrome is a significant risk factor for patients who undergo elective outpatient surgery, according to a study from Loyola in Maywood, IL.
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Recall of automated scope reprocessors ordered
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Custom Ultrasonics to recall all of its automated endoscope reprocessors from healthcare facilities due to what the FDA says is “the firm’s continued violations of federal law.”