Christy Franck, administrator of Montgomery Surgery Center, a Surgical Care Affiliates center in Rockville, Md., cites seven exceptional ideas for cutting costs in an ambulatory surgery center.
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If surgery center leaders can identify and add an up-and-coming procedure to their list of approved procedures prior to their competitors doing such, they may be able to corner the market and profit tremendously before the surgery becomes widespread. Lori…
Measuring physician performance in an ambulatory surgery center has become essential, says Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn. "It is the only way we know if we have been effective and if we need to…
Nap Gary, chief operating officer for Regent Surgical Health, discusses one of the management company's most successful ASC turnarounds, Marietta (Ohio) Surgery Center.
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.
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…