When Anne Hargrave-Thomas, administrator/CEO, and Jennifer Butterfield, clinical nurse manager, for Lakes Surgery Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., joined the ambulatory surgery center five years ago, they saw that one of the biggest challenges facing the ASC was a poorly…
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While more ambulatory surgery centers are moving away from communicating with patients through paper and gravitating toward electronic tools such as e-mail as a means of corresponding with patients prior to surgery or as a way to obtain patient satisfaction…
Larry D. Taylor is president and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare. Q: What are some of the steps a management and development company can take to facilitate change in a struggling ambulatory surgery center (that the current physician-owners…
Amy Mowles, president and CEO of Mowles Medical Management, identifies four critical steps for a successful de novo pain management ambulatory surgery center.
Here are 12 findings — clinical and non-clinical — from two AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement 2010 studies on colonoscopy. Sixty-nine organizations participated in the clinical study while 32 centers participated in the non-clinical study.
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In a previously published story, Brian Brown, regional vice president of operations of Meridian Surgical Partners, identified five ambulatory surgery center physician statistics to track and benchmark ("5 Physician Statistics ASCs Should Track and Benchmark"). Here Mr. Brown identifies five…
There is a mentality at some ambulatory surgery centers that if the facility is making money, it must performing well. However, an ASC which becomes complacent with its financial performance could mean lost opportunities to perform even better. Here are…
Kenny Spitler, CDO, Interventional Management Services, identifies and discusses a critical mistake made by ambulatory surgery centers and its ramifications. Kenny Spitler: Unfortunately, I have witnessed several scenarios where a top performing physician has decided to leave an ASC,…
Darin Jay Hill, chief development officer for Titan Health Corp., provides three points on how synergies in a satellite facility built by Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System can enhance volume at a new ambulatory surgery center located there. The…
In 10 months, Kate Rock, administrator of Doylestown Surgery Center in Warrington, Pa., reduced expenses in her ambulatory surgery center by $400,000 over the previous calendar year, ending 2010 with the most positive bottom line for the ASC in many…