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The following article is written by Michael McKevitt, senior vice president, business development, for Regent Surgical Health.   Simply stated, neither the priorities of the hospital nor the priorities of the surgeons are necessarily the priorities of a surgery center.…

Mike Madewell, administrator of Panama City (Fla.) Surgery Center, a Nueterra facility, cites seven lax habits of surgeons who are otherwise highly effective in an ambulatory surgery center, and he suggests ways to help improve their performance.

Medicaid currently accounts for one-third of all cases at Bidwell Surgery Center, a five-OR ambulatory surgery center in Middletown, Ohio. "There's absolutely no room for fat on the bone," says Chuck Brown, administrator of this multispecialty ASC, a joint venture…

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Brad Federman, president of Performancepoint LLC, lists 10 mistakes healthcare organizations make when conducting employee engagement surveys.

Micah Solomon, speaker and advisor to corporations and professional firms on improving customer service and the customer experience, discusses the problem of poor customer service in the healthcare industry — and how to fix it.

Here are 10 statistics about orthopedic-driven ambulatory surgery centers, defined here as ASCs that perform greater than 50 percent orthopedics. Data comes from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010. All figures are averages.

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