Despite an increase in surgeries performed at the Green Bay, Wis.-based Milo C. Huempfner Outpatient Clinic, its surgery center still operates below capacity, Fox 11 reports. Here are seven insights:
1. Doctors performed 576 procedures at the clinic in 2017, a 23 percent increase from 2016. Sixty-five surgeries took place at the ASC in 2015, the year it opened.
2. The facility has the capacity for 6,000 surgical cases a year, according to Richard Ellison, MD, who resigned as the ASC's head of surgery after one year in the position.
3. The center uses three out of its five operating rooms on a regular basis.
4. The facility's associate chief of staff, Shiloh Ramos, MD, said adding surgical procedures and expanding services to patients beyond the Green Bay area could help fill the operating rooms. Dr. Ramos said the clinic has explored improvement options that haven't panned out.
5. Most surgeries performed at the ASC are ophthalmology procedures.
6. The clinic has a full-time general surgeon and a part-time urologist, gynecologist, ophthalmologist, orthopedic surgeon and oral surgeon.
7. The clinic served 17,854 veterans in 2017, according to officials from the department of Veterans Affairs.
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