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Ideas That Work

Ideas That Work: A Better Understanding

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors09/11/2019

At our ASC, 15% to 20% of our patients speak Spanish as their primary language. For many years, we've partnered with East Tennessee State University's (ETSU) Language...

Product News

Thinking of Buying... Video Monitors

By: Suraj Soudagar09/11/2019

There's a universe of surgical monitors out there of varying sizes, features and functionality. Where do you start in evaluating your options? As a healthcare equipment...

Ideas That Work

Ideas That Work: Safe Rooms

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors09/11/2019

How will you protect your staff if there's an active shooter in your facility? We've trained our staff using the FBI-endorsed Run, Hide, Fight protocol. If staff can't safely evacuate...

Ophthalmology

A Look at the Latest in Ophthalmic Lasers

By: Joe Paone09/11/2019

Lasers are powering numerous procedures at eye surgery centers — cataracts, glaucoma, astigmatism, cornea and retina among them — with more on the way....

Ideas That Work

Ideas That Work: Solve The Problem for Everyone

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors09/11/2019

The patient is prepped and draped, and I'm seated to begin my charting. Only then do I realize that I've forgotten to record the serial number of the SCD box. I'd have to hop...

Patient Experience

Pain Control: A Big-Picture Approach to Pain Management

By: Daniel Cook09/11/2019

The OR team at Lakeside Surgery Center in Omaha, Neb., works hard to manage patients’ post-op pain with an eye toward the addiction epidemic. “Our nation is in...

Regulatory Affairs

Regulatory Affairs: How Transparent Is Healthcare Transparency?

By: Mark Weiss09/11/2019

However wonderful it might (or might not) be for healthcare pricing to be transparent, what does it matter if you have no clear understanding of related costing and other...

Ideas That Work

Ideas That Work: Utility Players

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors09/11/2019

We've shaved some precious minutes off our turnover times by creating a "runner" position to help the RN, surgical tech and the 1 to 2 instrument techs we staff for each...

Ideas That Work

Ideas That Work: Nightmare Scenarios

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors09/11/2019

Before critical procedures like our high-volume thyroidectomies, we gather a multidisciplinary team to play a game of "What Could Go Wrong?" in which we discuss...

Staffing

Staffing: Beating the Block Time Blues

By: Ann Geier09/11/2019

Two words that strike fear in the heart of every OR manager: open time. That, of course, is when your ORs sit silent and empty while it's standing-room only in the staff...

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