The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement released the results of its Cataract Extraction with Lens Insertion 2008 Report: Performance Measurement and Benchmarking in Ambulatory Organizations survey, which demonstrates that ambulatory centers performing this procedure can…
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The Central Louisiana Ambulatory Surgical Center in Alexandria will convert to a hospital within a year, according to a report in The Town Talk.
Results from the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, show that rates of short-term complications and death were low following bariatric surgery for the treatment of extreme obesity, according…
Eveia Health Consulting and Management noticed that its clients were struggling with determining the out-of-pocket amounts due from patients, especially Medicare beneficiaries who were affected by the recent changes in the Medicare ASC payment methodology and the complexities that exist…
The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has opened a new ASC to relieve some of the demands on the hospital's existing operating rooms, according to a report from WXXI.
Anonymous: When you are at 85 percent full on your schedule, and have run out of open block time, it is time to look at an additional room and additional equipment.
Anonymous: You should consider opening another operating room when you hit 65 percent utilization of a current room.
Jim Stilley, FACHE, CASC, CEO, Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (Traverse City, Mich.): First, agree on a common description of administrator. There are all types of administrators, even in the ASC industry. When you have an administrator that can create a…
Todd Flickema, MBA, senior vice president, Surgical Management Professionals: You need to first ask what level of an administrator you need for the facility. This will be dictated or at least heavily influenced by the size of the facility, types…
Anonymous: An administrator salary should depend on the number of ORs, facility volume, geographic location, clinical background and profitability of the center. I find that the salary surveys are often completed by a small number of facilities skewing the results.