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Try Making a List for 2025
With the days growing shorter and the holidays approaching fast, 2024 is coming to an end....
Anthem BCBS Cancels Controversial Planned Anesthesia Payment Change
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has reversed course on its plan to change the way it reimburses for anesthesia care payments, which critics said included not paying for...
Show Your Appreciation
It’s a crazy time of the year as the holidays are in full swing. Your team members may be extra stressed with their workloads and personal obligations, and you’re in the same...
A Day in the Life of an Administrator: Jessica Hovland
Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our online column, where we sat down with Jessica Hovland, DNP, RN, CPAN, NE-BC, PMGT-BC, administrative director...
Behind Closed Doors: A Full-Circle Health Scare
It’s funny how some memories come back to you. One afternoon when I was about eight years old, my stepdad and I were out running errands and we decided to stop at a...
Staffing: Tap Into the Experience of Legacy Nurses
Countless articles have been written about the staffing crisis facing healthcare facilities. These pieces often focus on the dangers of the nursing shortage in America’s most...
Regulatory Affairs: Take Advantage of CMS’ 2025 Changes
Well, here we are, approaching the end of 2024. I am surprised at how quickly each year goes by, and how each year seems to go faster than the year before....
Anesthesia Alert: Services Without the Subsidies: Here’s How
A concerning trend in ambulatory surgery is the growing need to subsidize anesthesia services....
Editor’s Page: Our Biggest Champion
From my position, there are only two types of bosses: Those who value editorial content and those who don’t....
Ideas That Work: Practical Considerations for OR Footwear
Choosing the right work gear for your feet is far from a no-brainer when your job is in the perioperative arena....
Ideas That Work: Caution Urged Around Barcode Medication Administration Workarounds
As the year comes to an end and facilities take stock of their practices in 2024, it’s helpful to review concerns expressed by patient safety groups and consider the...
Ideas That Work: Making Room for More Patients
Tampa Surgery Center serves a large volume of patients who receive laser eye treatments, including YAG capsulotomy, superior and inferior selective laser...
Ideas That Work: GI Saturdays Help Centers Stay on Track
Got a backlog of colonoscopy cases clogging up your center’s schedule? Blocking out just one Saturday a year to focus on the backlog can work wonders....
Ideas That Work: Visual Aids Make Excuses Disappear
Sterile processing leaders do everything they possibly can to ensure staff follow all the intricate steps and complex processes necessary to ensure surgical instruments are...
Connected Care: How OR Integration Is Redefining Surgery
“It feels like you are in a spaceship,” says Ally Silver, FACHE, MPH, assistant vice president of surgical services operations at Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine, of the health...
Eight Ways to Make Patient Warming a Reality
JD Buchert, MSN, M.Ed., MS, RN, recalls a patient encounter that has stuck with him over the years, one of many cases that has helped shape his understanding of how...
Strive to Standardize
Most experts believe high-level disinfection (HLD) activities should be standardized but not centralized. “Centralization of disinfecting activities — especially with scopes...
Pressure Injury Prevention and Treatment Essentials
Traditional thinking about pressure injuries (PIs) can lead to many providers only being on guard against them when caring for older patients in acute-care settings who have...
The Green OR: Environmental Best Practices ASCs Can Employ
Why should a surgery center become more sustainable? The energy intensity, expensive supplies and significant waste generated in surgery offer plenty of opportunities to...
How’s the Water in There?
The focus in sterile processing is often on processes and technology, but the quality of the water being used in sterile processing departments (SPDs) is all too often...