It’s almost time for International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW)! Organized by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), which...

The aging adult population offers the ophthalmology marketplace a boom as more patients seek eye care and eye surgeries to improve their quality of life....

What are your peers doing to prevent hypothermia and why? That’s what the editors of Outpatient Surgery Magazine wanted to find in their 2025 Patient Warming Survey....

The much-anticipated ranking of the nation’s hospitals was released this summer by U.S. News & World Report in their annual report....

This is the year that the last of the Baby Boomers turn 60. That is one of the reasons healthcare analysts are optimistic about the future of outpatient services despite...

The American Hospital Association has produced a fact sheet to disprove what the organization says are false narratives by competitors in an effort to get Congress to...

Hospitals have stepped in to fill the gaps created in medical care for millions of Americans in rural communities created by widespread private practice closures in...

The hospital-owned ambulatory surgery center market continues to grow, according to Grand View Horizon Research, with a projection of a compound annual growth rate...

Outpatient Surgery Magazine’s annual analysis of its readers’ compensation packages dove beneath the data to take leaders’ temperatures on a variety of issues including job...

The summer of 2025 indicated no slowing down of ambulatory departments being upgraded and included in hospitals with new additions and renovations. Activities in the...

The future of HOPDs’ share of total joints arthroplasty appears safe, according to a study published last year that shows patients with health issues are getting their...

In a recent article in Outpatient Surgery Magazine, the prediction for winds of change provides insights for the future. Hospitals are investing in ASCs as the market continues...

Healthcare leaders are taking a closer look at the OBBBA – the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” introduced by the Trump administration in July – and its impact on hospitals across...

The global medical technology company that delivers accessible solutions for both healthcare providers and patients, CONMED serves ambulatory surgery centers, Endo...

The movement to remove toxic surgical smoke from the nation’s ORs has reached another milestone, as 20 states have now passed laws that mandate usage of smoke...

Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP, is president and founder of Sheldon Sones and Associates. Based in Connecticut, the company has provided more than 200 surgical...

Patient warming stories tend to focus heavily on the “comfort” factor. That makes sense when you hear about all the positive comments and high satisfaction scores that tend to...

Strong communication is the essential component in a perioperative culture of safety. It means clear, consistent and respectful interactions among all team members to...

Nearly half of the 1,575 sentinel events reported to The Joint Commission (TJC) last year were falls. Tied for second were wrong surgeries: There were 127 incidents, or 8% of all...

Sentinel events are often referred to as “never events” because of the potentially serious harm they pose to patients that should never happen....