CURRENT ISSUE: January 2022
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Top Tips for Preventing Infections
As the endless pandemic drags on, facilities continue to integrate best practices with daily patient care.
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Staffing: Making Mindfulness Work
Feeing stressed? Tap into this underutilized resource to manage it.
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SPECIAL EDITION: 2022 Outpatient Surgery Outlook: Megatrends, Influencers & Forecast
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2022 Outpatient Surgery Outlook: Megatrends, Influencers & Forecast
A look back at 2021 to discover what most impacted the outpatient surgery community — and how to plan for challenges, changes and opportunities ahead.
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2021 OR Excellence Winners
Congratulations to our winners!
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PROFITABLE SUSTAINABILITY
You, Too, Can Go Green
Save money while saving the planet by implementing these mostly low-impact initiatives.
PATIENT SAFETY
High-Tech Help for Preventing RSIs
Manual counts are almost always accurate, but two competing adjunct technologies can provide extra assurance that no sponge is left behind.
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HOLIDAY SPIRIT
Proliance Eastside AUA Surgery Center in Kirkland, Wash., decided to treat its employees to lunch while supporting fellow pandemic-affected local businesses last holiday season. Sponsored by its surgeons like Jim Pritchett, MD (pictured), the month-long program found staff ordering their favorite dishes from nearby eateries, boosting both staff morale and the local economy.
PHOTO CREDIT: Proliance Eastside AUA Surgery Center
BREAKROOM
Tonia Bales, CRNA
This nurse anesthetist gained national attention from Dirty John, a podcast about her former husband John Meehan, a disgraced CRNA, con man and infamous drug diverter. Now sheβs sharing the lessons she learned to help facilities improve medication safety and security.
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GUT FEELING
Advances in Abdominal Surgery Instrumentation
A variety of modalities that cut and coagulate tissue make procedures easier for surgeons and safer for patients.
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