At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Dawn McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, regional vice president of operations for Health Inventures, discussed the problems that cause hospital/physicians surgery center joint ventures to fall apart.
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The CDC provides a free, downloadable poster and flyer for healthcare settings that convey the message of "cover your cough."
At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Kristian Werling, JD, partner, and Gretchen Townshend, JD, associate at McGuireWoods explained some of the key issues physician and ASC leaders need to consider before they sell…
Pedro Vergne-Marini, MD, founder and managing member of Physicians' Capital Investments spoke at the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27 and discussed how real estate ownership can help physicians control more of their revenue streams.
At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, Elizabeth Lamkin and Bill Behrens, partners at PACE Healthcare Consulting, discussed how Medicare recovery audit contractors are entering into the ASC sector and what ASCs need to…
At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Rob Murphy, president of Murphy Healthcare Group discussed how an ASC can be profitable when going in-network for certain procedures.
Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center, in Baxter, Minn., and an AAAHC surveyor, provided Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control with a collection of tools addressing preoperative and postoperative documentation for use in ambulatory surgery centers.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has appointed B. Diane Gambill, PhD, as the society's new chief learning officer, according to an ASA release.
At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Regina C. Robinson, RN, MBA, director of Peninsula Surgical Center in Newport News, Va., discussed benchmarking and infection control.
CMS announced last week that it will repeal its requirement that surgery centers notify patients of certain information prior to surgery, according to an ASCA release.