At first, Wendy Salo was apprehensive about her surgery at an outpatient surgery center.
However, after her experience at the Massachusetts Avenue Surgery Center in Bethesda, Md., Ms. Salo came around, joking that the only difference center and her regular hospital — Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville — was easier parking at the center.
Now, after the death of Joan Rivers at Yorkville Endoscopy cast some poor light on surgery centers at large, officials are now looking for more cases like Ms. Salo's to tout.
"We've never had a Joan Rivers incident," said Massachusetts Avenue Surgery Center's executive director, Randall Gross, to Kaiser News Network. "That's not representative of what we do."
As postoperative infection, for example, is a major concern for patients and providers alike — and, like many states, while Maryland does not require reporting of postoperative infection by surgery centers — Gross said that physicians who practice at his center are required to submit monthly reports to him and that that rate is under 1 percent.
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