Nueterra Health Alliance has named Reed Martin as its vice president of operations.
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John B. Carter, MD, a board-certified anesthesiologist, has established his medical practice with OU Physicians, according to a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center release.
Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., has announced the opening of a new ophthalmology surgery center within the David Grant USAF Medical Center.
Product standardization, an important facet of an ambulatory surgery center's supply chain and materials management, must be approached strategically and be carried out diligently. Adam Higman, manager at Soyring Consulting, a healthcare solutions company based in St. Petersburg, Fla., shares…
Here are 10 statistics about ASCs with $3M-$5.99M in net revenue, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
Philip S. Koerper, MD, chief of anesthesia at Kentucky Surgery Center, recently sat down with an editorial staff member at Beckers ASC Review. He discusses five ways that ambulatory surgery center's anesthesiologists can help promote high-quality patient care and good…
The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). To learn more about receiving this resource and joining APIC, visit www.apic.org/ambulatorynewsletter. To learn…
Linda Groah, MSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN, CEO and executive director of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), discusses the top 10 patient safety issues facilities should tackle in 2011.
Introduction The process of patients giving their informed consent to medical treatment is a legal device that began in the 1950s in an attempt to enable patients a higher degree of autonomy in their treatment while simultaneously protecting doctors from…
Ambulatory surgery centers in California are facing a 20 percent reduction in reimbursement under proposed regulations from the California Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), according to a news release from the California Ambulatory Surgery Association.