Richard Jacques, president and CEO of Covenant Surgical Partners, discusses the pros and cons of single-specialty ASCs.
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Meadville (Pa.) Medical Center opened a new outpatient surgery center on Grove Street in Meadville, according to a report in the Erie Times-News.
Jackson, Tenn.-based West Tennessee Healthcare has announced that it will relocate its outpatient surgery center to a new location within six months, according to a report by the Jackson Sun.
Successful ASC leaders draw upon a career's worth of knowledge and experiences when making decisions that impact their centers. Here, four ASC leaders discuss the best advice they have received and the advice they would give to other leaders in…
In 2008, 30,000 hip arthroscopy procedures were performed, and that number is expected to grow 15 percent by 2013, according to a Millennium Research Group news release.
Here are the average and median operating expenses per square foot of a surgery center, according to the VMG Health 2008 Intellimarker.
Editor's note: The following article appeared in the Regent Surgical Health e-newsletter.The question often arises "Am I better off handling my human resource administrative functions internally or externally (outsource)?" Human resource management and administration is a wide ranging field. It…
According to the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, around 220,000 people with morbid obesity underwent bariatric surgery in 2008. As recent reports have shown, performing these procedures in an outpatient setting is safe and effective for the right…
Everyone who has an e-mail account has seen at least one version of the so-called "Nigerian Widow" scam, an unusually solicitous e-mail from a woman who claims her husband recently died and left a large sum of money in Nigeria…
A U.S. District Court rejected a challenge brought by a group of cardiologists, surgeons and physician-owned entities, which claimed that a change in CMS's self-referral rules could hurt patient care, according to a report in American Medical News.
