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Anesthesia Business Consultants announces today that it has formed a partnership with Survey Vitals, the premier provider of patient satisfaction questionnaires to the anesthesia industry.

Ann H. Kalter, MD, and Cynthia S. Cooper, MD, have started performing outpatient gynecologic surgery at the Stratham Ambulatory Surgery Center in Dover, N.H., according to a Melodika report.

McKesson Medical-Surgical has launched UPrevent, a new web resource portal, to help healthcare providers understand and adhere to infection prevention guidelines in their facilities.

Here are six smart moves for successful ophthalmology-driven ASCs in 2013.

The Stillwater (Okla.) Medical Center Authority Board of Trustees has approved the purchase of a C-arm for $226,281 for the hospital's surgery center, according to a Stillwater NewsPress report.

Symbion, a company that owns and operates a network of short-stay surgical facilities, has announced the following staff promotions:

Supply costs are one of the two biggest expenses for surgery centers, the other being staffing. Here four surgery center experts discuss how ASCs can lower supply costs while maintaining quality and keeping physicians happy.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free toolkit on implementing a program to help patients with chronic diseases learn to self-manage.

Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations' community-based approach contributed to the success of their initiatives in reducing readmissions in 14 communities, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

New York Pain Consultants, a pain management center, has seen a 20 percent increase in patients per week since Hurricane Sandy, according to Luis M. Fandos, co-founder of the center.