Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Part of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s (HUP) entry that won the OR Excellence Pain Management Award this year includes the placement of an alert...

When Hunterdon Center for Surgery in Flemington, N.J., shifted from paper charting to EMR, it acquired wheeled desks for the laptops its nurses and other providers would...

When it came to surveilling SSIs, Baptist Health South Florida’s Outpatient Services unit was, in the words of its nurse leaders, “tracking everything, but tracking nothing....”

It takes a team to ensure surgical instruments are clean, sterile and ready for surgery....

It’s not unusual for the turnover team at a surgery center to be compared to a NASCAR pit crew — a group of people working together quickly and efficiently to achieve the...

Surgical robots, once only affordable to the largest hospitals and health systems, are now finding their way into a growing number of outpatient surgical facilities as patents...

Between regional anesthesia, multimodal medication regimens and ERAS pathways executed with military-like precision, postoperative pain management is as efficient...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City proves that going green doesn’t automatically mean you will lose green....

The Monroeville (Pa.) Ambulatory Surgery Center faced a significant challenge surrounding inefficient instrument use that led to increased costs and delays in surgical...

Like many hospitals across the country, The Valley Hospital in Paramus, N.J., experienced a period of low staffing in its sterile processing department (SPD)...