ASC benchmarking firm CTQ Solutions has announced its 2009/2010 Apex Quality Award winners, recognizing ASCs, endoscopy centers, diagnostic imaging centers and surgical hospitals for excellence in patient satisfaction and overall quality of care.
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Dwayne Kertanis is vice president of operations for Constitution Surgery Centers in Newington, Conn., which manages 12 surgery centers in a variety of specialties in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Here Mr. Kertanis, who manages three single-specialty eye centers in…
Your ASC will waste money and annoy your surgeons, anesthesiologists and staff members if your schedule has huge holes of time when no patients are scheduled. Vicki Edelman, administrator of Blue Bell (Pa.) Surgery Center, offers some insight on keeping…
You want the best staff possible, but it can be hard to get a sense of a person's character and work ethic during a brief interview. Lynda Simon, administrator of St. John's Clinic: Head and Neck Surgery in Springfield, Mo.,…
In the healthcare sector, very often services are rendered without a detailed understanding of the associated costs. Case costing enables us to determine how much a specific surgery either improved or reduced the bottom line of an ASC. For instance,…
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Buddy Bacon, CEO of Meridian Surgical Partners, discusses how to effectively manage operations for multiple ASCs, recruit quality team members and make your centers attractive places to work.
During the interview process, it can be difficult to tell who will be an invaluable part of your ASC and who will lose you money and waste your time. Theresa Palicki, administrator of Eastside Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, discusses…
Rajiv Chopra, principal and CFO for The C/N Group, identifies three ways ASCs can improve processes and their overall efficiency.
Here is a list of 20 ASCs performing more than 10,000 cases each year.
Features Insight From Jeff Sapp of Innovative Surgical Solutions; Dr. Robert Peets of Samaritan North Surgery Center; Jeff Peo of ASCOA; Dr. Mike Russell of Texas Spine & Joint Hospital; and Jeffrey Shanton of Journal Square Surgical Center ASC leaders…