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Total joint replacements are moving to the outpatient setting, with more than 300 ASCs across the country including total knee and hip procedures.

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.

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found covert observation of hand hygiene compliance helps detect change over time, but may not improve compliance as much as thought.

Employee-recruiting website Glassdoor has released its list of the highest-paying jobs in medicine, a field projected to grow 18 percent between 2016 and 2026.

David Hamilton, CEO of Mnet Health Services, a healthcare finance outsourcing company, outlined three ways to improve ASC quality through improved patient safety and outcomes.

MedPAC's 2019 commission report to Congress showed that the number of ASCs in the U.S. continues to grow, despite a number of closures.