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Here are 15 statistics on ambulatory surgery centers located in the southeastern United States (GA, FL, SC, NC, AL, MS and TN). Data comes from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010. Note: All numbers are averages.

Lee Chester, a healthcare architect and vice president of L3 Healthcare Design in Altamonte Springs, Fla., lists 10 cardinal sins in ambulatory surgery center design.

Outpatient spine surgery is predicted to grow 300 percent between 2005 and 2015, according to Chris Bishop, partner and senior vice president of acquisitions for Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners. This growth is driven in large part due to improvement…

Amy McKiernan, administrator of Louisville (Ky.) Surgery Center, who runs a multi-specialty ASC with two ORs and seven pre-op/recovery bays, discusses tactics to overcome space constraints in a small ASC.

Tom Curtis, owner of Curtis Group Architects in Dallas, identifies six key design mistakes for ambulatory surgery centers.

In the five years Anne Hargrave-Thomas has spent as CEO of West Bloomfield (Mich.) Surgery Center, the facility has moved from last place to first place for employee satisfaction within National Surgical Hospitals' facilities. Here are 10 ways the center…

In the last two years, the city of Hastings in Nebraska has experienced the brunt of the economic downturn: In one year, the community experienced a 10 percent decrease in its workforce. For ambulatory surgery centers in small communities, economic…

Tom Yerden, owner of TRY Health Care Solutions in North Fork, Idaho, says ambulatory surgery centers pass through three stages of growth, each requiring a different management style and even a different personality.

Chris McMenemy, vice president for administration at Ortmann Healthcare Consultants in Columbia, S.C., lists four considerations on dealing with architects and general contractors in constructing new ASCs.

Jennifer Brown, RN, endoscopy nurse manager of Gastroenterology Associates of Central Virginia in Lynchburg, Va., shares five tips on successfully implementing an EHR system in a practice or ambulatory surgery center.