Linda Phillips, RN, administrator of Southgate (Mich.) Surgery Center, discusses how her surgery center successfully moved from a single-specialty ophthalmology center to a multi-specialty ASC with GI and pain.
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Lou Lazatin, president and CEO of St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., recently led her hospital in establishing the Saint John's Ambulatory Surgery Center, a 12,000-square-foot, multi-specialty ASC. Here she discusses six reasons hospitals should consider developing a…
NorthStar Surgical Center in Lubbock, Texas, began offering total knee, uni-knee, total ankle and total shoulder procedures at the beginning of the year. The ambulatory surgery center has performed approximately 10 of the procedures so far. John D. Brock, administrator…
Need an update on comings and goings in the surgery center industry? Here are 10 must-read articles from the week of Aug. 22.Good news for surgery centers — HHS made another step toward overturning CMS' same-day surgery limitation.
Nap Gary, COO of Regent Surgical Health in Westchester, Ill., lists the top five vulnerabilities of surgery centers in the next few years.
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When Lori Ramirez started with United Surgical Partners International in 1999, the company had two surgery centers in Houston. By the time she left in 2007, she oversaw more than 15 surgery centers in joint venture with Memorial Healthcare System…
Kenneth R. Ross, CEO of Solara Surgical Partners, and Bill Murphy, COO of the Southlake, Texas-based company, outline 10 steps for ambulatory surgery center administrators to maintain great relations with physician-partners.
Kate Rock, administrator of Doylestown Surgery Center in Warrington, Pa., discusses 10 ways administrators can improve the work environment at their surgery centers.
Here are 20 statistics on compensation of hospital-employed and independent physicians for 10 common surgery center specialties, according to data from MGMA's Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2010 Report Based on 2009 Data.
Bill Heath, chief development officer at Practice Partners in Healthcare in Birmingham, Ala., makes seven key points on joint ventures between hospitals and physicians in ambulatory surgery centers.