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How Well Do You Know These Credentialing, Privileging and Peer Review Requirements?
Recently I was asked to put together a presentation on avoiding common mistakes in credentialing, privileging and peer review....
A Day in the Life of an Administrator: Rob Taylor
Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our online column, where we sat down with Rob Taylor, RN, BS, IP, clinical director and total joints coordinator...
Behind Closed Doors: Home Remedies
These days, you can’t turn on the TV without being assaulted by drug commercials promising to improve everything from your erection to your opioid-induced constipation...
Regulatory Affairs: CMS Proposal a ‘Horrible Three-Legged Stool’
Expanding the landscape of surgeries for Medicare patients at ASCs in 2024 does not look promising....
Staffing: Overcome Budget Challenges
Training and education are at the forefront of everything we do in patient care. Unfortunately, when it comes to expanding the knowledge and skills...
Editor’s Page: A Twilight Zone-caliber Tradition
I’m a sucker for traditions. Those set-your-clock-to-it moments you look forward to all year....
Ideas That Work: Small Groups Yield Big Results
If you want staff to be more engaged and active in quality improvement and other care-related initiatives, think small....
Ideas That Work: Hitting the Bullseye on Multimodal Learning
ASCs are required by accreditors like AAAHC to educate staff and complete scenario-based simulations on “internal disaster” topics such as malignant hyperthermia...
Ideas That Work: Encourage Proper Pronoun Usage
Being the only transgender man in the Medical-Surgical unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Mick Masaba, RN, BSN...
Ideas That Work: ‘Thankful Thursdays’ Offer a Variety of Appreciative Activities
Bend (Ore.) Surgery Center has been operating for more than a quarter-century and, for its leaders, showing appreciation to staff has always been baked into the ASC’s mission....
How to Succeed in Running a High-Volume GI Center
The volume potential in a GI center creates unique challenges and opportunities, whether you are just starting out or have been offering GI cases for years....
How the Perioperative Team Can Optimize Arthroplasty Outcomes
Sure, a successful surgery in the patient’s eyes means waking up and knowing they will soon have their mobility and, essentially, their quality of life back....
Innovative Whole-Room Disinfection Options
Our health system acquired part of an under-utilized shopping mall and converted it into a surgery center.....
Focus On: ASC Build: Optimization Is Everything
One evening this August, more than 350 local doctors, athletes, celebrities and business leaders attended a cocktail reception in Marina del Rey, Calif....
A Critical Conversation
Not long ago, the notion of opioid-sparing surgery — the process of reducing potentially addictive narcotics through pre- and intraoperative multimodal anesthesia...
Reprocessing Power Tools in the Modern Age
There was a time when all surgical power tools had to be handwashed (or, in sterile processing parlance, manually cleaned) because the devices weren’t...
OR Excellence Awards: Environmental Stewardship: A Rallying Point for Sustainability
Sometimes it’s not just who you are but also where you are....
OR Excellence Awards: Financial Management: Making Collections a Priority
A management change at Waterbury (Conn.) Surgery Center took place in 2021, and it didn’t take long for the new team to identify daily collections as a problem...
OR Excellence Awards: Patient Satisfaction: A Happier Wait — While Patients Dilate
Newsom Surgery Center of Sebring (Fla.) is a high-volume Ophthalmology-based ASC that places efficiency right below safe, superior and highly satisfying care...
OR Excellence Awards: Pain Control: Lowest Doses at the Perfect Times
As more and more total joint replacements take place in ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments, people often attribute the migration...