Jesseye Arrambide, RN, BSN, CNOR, executive director of Oregon Outpatient Surgery Center in Tigard and vice president and program chair of the Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, discusses six ways to cut staffing costs in an ASC.
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Here are 30 benchmarks on surgery centers that perform more than 50 percent orthopedic procedures, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. Note: All statistics are averages.
Bill Horne, CEO of Laser Spine Institute, has announced the opening of the company's new ambulatory surgery center in Oklahoma City, according to a news release from LSI.
Reviewing an ambulatory surgery center's cash flow statement is a quick and easy way to check a center's financial health, says Matt Lau, director of financial analysis at Regent Surgical Health. Non-MBAs, such as physician-investors, should take advantage of this…
Organizations nationwide are considering whether to institute an influenza vaccination policy. In just the past few weeks, hospitals in Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Michigan have announced such policies.
Here are 14 goals ambulatory surgery centers can work to achieve by the end of 2011, as identified by Joan Dentler, president of ASC Strategies; Reed Martin, chief operating officer of Surgical Management Professionals; and Joseph Zasa, managing and founding…
Surgery centers can save money and gain valuable expertise by outsourcing surgical services to third-party companies, which provide surgical assistants, technicians and the necessary equipment and supplies. Some facilities contract with an outsourcing company directly and others bring a company…
Kevin Weinstein, vice president for marketing at ZirMed in Louisville, Ky., offers nine best practices for ambulatory surgery centers to manage revenue cycle.
The University of Massachusetts-Lowell is opening its Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, after completing a $4 million renovation of former factory space, according to a Mass Device report.
Three-quarters of bariatric surgery patients are not informed about their options to receive plastic surgery to remove excess folds of skin, according to an American Society of Plastic Surgeons news release.