CURRENT ISSUE: January 2022
🌐 DIGITAL EDITION
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: January 2022 - Emerging Trends
🌐 DIGITAL EDITION
Why Outpatient Spine Is Surgery’s Hottest Specialty
New techniques, enhanced anesthesia practices and improved pain control are creating attractive opportunities for growth-oriented facilities.
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Capitalizing on Cardiology
As the reimbursement and regulatory landscapes continue to evolve, pioneering ASCs are safely adding cases.
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IN AND OUT
Real-Life Lessons in Outpatient Total Joints
Go behind the scenes at Henry Ford Health System as it provides convenient, effective same-day care for patients.
LEARNING BY DOING
Virtual Reality Training Takes Off
Simulated experiences are transforming the future — and present — of surgical education.
FEATURED PHOTO
CALMING CUTENESS
In pre-op at the Hunterdon Center for Surgery in Flemington, N.J., nervous pediatric patients receive “Friendly Friends,” adorable stuffed animals such as dinosaurs, dogs, pigs and hippos that put them at ease by giving them something to squeeze tight. The toys’ bandanas, along with a backpack to take the cuddly friend home, are emblazoned with the facility’s name and phone number, serving as an effective marketing tool while improving the patient experience.
PHOTO CREDIT: Lisa York
BREAKROOM
Ali H. Mesiwala, MD, FAANS
A neurosurgeon leading the minimally invasive spine revolution explains how success requires eliminating all variables before the patient arrives in the OR.
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LEGAL UPDATE
How to Handle Religious Vaccine Objections
Surgical leaders must tread lightly with exemption requests. Legal expert Casey Duhart, BS, M.Ed., JD, provides a closer look.
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