ASC News

Joyce (Deno) Thomas, RN, BSN, is senior vice president, operations, for Regent Surgical Health.   Q: Our ambulatory surgery center is trying to determine our average hours per case. Who and what activities should be included in the formula?  …

William F. Mulhall, RN, a partner with Merritt Healthcare in Somers, N.Y., offers eight points to ensure safe and seamless operations when an existing ambulatory surgery center undergoes construction for renovation or expansion.

Buddy Bacon, CEO of Meridian Surgical Partners, discusses the realities of recruiting physician investors to surgery centers in the current healthcare climate.

Here are 50 benchmarking statistics on surgery center case volume, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Here are 10 must-read articles about the ASC industry from the week of Aug. 29.

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.

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.