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The Joint Commission announced changes to two of its National Patient Safety Goals have gone into effect.

Here are 14 statistics on pain management cases in ASCs based on VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Inellimarker 2017.

The outpatient surgery rooms at Minneapolis-based Hennepin County Medical Center's new $160 million specialty treatment center will offer providers a unique lighting setup, the Minnesota StarTribune reports.

The Joint Commission is urging ambulatory care provides to take extra precautions to ensure that they aren't reusing the single-use portion of blood glucose monitoring devices.

Here are 14 statistics on ophthalmology net revenue per case and case volume across the U.S., according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2017.

Here are key statistics on operating expenses per case at ASCs across the country, based on VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2017 data.

In our ongoing series, Becker's ASC Review spoke with AAAASF’s Associate Director of Accreditation Jeanne Henry about the organization's commonly cited deficiencies related to the transition from paper to electronic surgical logs.

The Joint Commission updated its hand hygiene standard for all accreditation programs.

In at least one metropolitan area, the main cause of medical litigation is infections from total joint replacements, according to an article in the Journal of Arthroplasty.

Here are 77 statistics for an ASC's balance sheet, outlining the average percentage of operating expenses for each category by region of the country, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker.