Procedures are more efficient when performed in an ASC compared to a hospital outpatient department, according to research published in the American Journal of Surgery.
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Oregon, Minnesota and Washington are the top three states to work as a nurse, according to a report from personal finance website WalletHub.
Daryl Schiller, PharmD, shared four tips for preparing for the medication management aspect of an ASC accreditation survey in a LinkedIn post.
The average income for physician assistants in 2018 was $110,567, according to a report from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
Total joint replacements are moving to the outpatient setting, with more than 300 ASCs across the country including total knee and hip procedures.
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Nurses working in ASCs wear many hats, but one of the most prominent is quality improvement, according to an article in American Nurse Today, the journal of the American Nurses Association.
The majority of ASCs are physician owned, according to data from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's 2017 salary and benefits survey.
Beaumont Health, Michigan's largest healthcare system, plans to open an outpatient campus in Wayne County in 2020.
There are myriad resources ASCs can use to benchmark their performance against other centers and to submit their own quality data.
A report from the Physicians Advocacy Institute found that the percentage of physicians joining hospitals and health systems steadily increased between July 2012 and January 2018.