Angela Laux, RN, BSN, MSOLQ, administrator of Bellin Orthopedic Surgery Center in Green Bay, Wis., offers three tips for surgery centers to increase patient volume without breaking the bank.
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Earlier this year, Wooster (Ohio) Ambulatory Surgery Center hosted an open house to showcase its facility and promote the use of ambulatory surgery centers, according to a report in The Daily Record.
In May 2012, MedHQ conducted a customer survey to see what drove their need for human resources support. The survey questioned why facilities contact the human resources department and what their most challenging employee issue was.
The Lean approach to process redesign can improve operating room turnover, Joan Ferrara, RN, clinical resource manager at Medline Industries, wrote in a Medline blog post.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, in cooperation with Voyance, has released the new ASC operational and clinical benchmarking program available online through the ASCA website.
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In August, ambulatory services accounted for 45 percent of healthcare employment, compared to 33 percent from hospitals, according to a report from Altarum Institute.
There are several new trends in healthcare spending to follow today.
The American Medical Association launched a new website designed to answer questions about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from physicians, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
An analysis from researchers at the University of California-Berkeley Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare reported that ambulatory surgery centers saved Medicare $7.5 billion from 2008 to 2011, according to a news release from the…
Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center recently completed an extensive expansion project, which included the growth of its surgery center, according to a news-journal.com report.