Dianne Wallace, RN, BSM, MBA, executive director of Menomonee Falls (Wis.) Ambulatory Surgery Center: Our free-standing multispecialty center performs around 13,000 procedures annually. We have a contracted anesthesia group that we have worked with exclusively for 14.5 years. They also…
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Ed Hetrick, president/CEO of Facility Development and Management: We currently contract with local groups that our surgeons are familiar with and know their quality and their ability to service the ambulatory market.
Here are eight statistics about case volume in surgery centers from VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker.
Here is an accounts receivable analysis for surgery centers, with a detailed breakdown by the number of operating rooms in an ASC, according to the VMG Health 2009 Intellimarker. Note: Figures provided are averages, dollar amounts are in thousands.
Many ASCs have WiFi networks. For clinical applications, WiFi provides convenient network access throughout the patient areas, which allows the clinical staff to access patient records, the materials managers to keep up with supply inventories and providers to retrieve lab…
Consumer Reports has ranked Animas Surgical Hospital, a physician-owned hospital in Durango, Colo., as the top hospital in the state.
Recent amendments to New Jersey's Codey Law, which prohibits self-referrals by physicians, include a Sept. 17, 2009, deadline which marks the beginning of a moratorium on new ambulatory surgery centers.
A recent, controversial study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vertebroplasty, a procedure commonly used to treat painful, osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in which cement is used to fill the cracks, is no more effective than…
Twin Cities Orthopedics, an independent physicians group, is building a new clinic in Edina, Minn., to consolidate three locations in the surrounding area, according to a report in Finance and Commerce.
Stillwater (Okla.) Medical Center Authority has offered to buy Stillwater Surgery Center, a freestanding, outpatient surgery center, for $7 million, according to a report in the Stillwater News Press.