Outpatient Surgery Magazine Archive

Then Korie Enscoe, MSN, RN, became a nurse 20 years ago, patients who had total joint replacements would spend a week in the hospital followed by a few days in a...

It seems so simple: Clean hands provide a safe environment for patients. But as anyone who works at a surgical facility knows, sometimes the most basic things — especially...

Outpatient total shoulder arthroplasties (TSAs), popularly known as shoulder replacements, were already gaining ground before CMS approved them for ASCs in 2024....

Yes, it’s true the ASC industry is growing at an astonishing pace. But it’s also true that succeeding in this crowded space leaves little room for error....

It started like a normal Tuesday morning. Driving to work at 5:30 a.m., setting my intentions for the day, I could not help noticing the full moon, which should have been...

In my former role as a senior leader of an ASC, I entered a finance meeting eager to share our process improvement initiatives that had resulted in reductions in expenses....

In a brightly lit, compact pediatric operating room, dozens of doctors, nurses and students crowded in to catch a glimpse of what was happening on the video monitor....

Rubik’s Cube is a three-dimensional color-matching puzzle based on algorithmic sequencing of nearly infinite potential solution sets: 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 of...

Everyone hopes to never be part of a lawsuit and all the stress and aggravation that accompanies it....

You could hear it in his voice. The anxiety, frustration and outright exhaustion was palpable when a conference attendee discussed his surgery center’s experience with...