Special Editions Archive

The ambulatory surgery center (ASC) industry is hyper-focused on growth. It is also, however, littered with the carcasses of facilities that failed by attempting to grow too quickly without enough honest forethought and solid strategic planning....

If you’re on the fence about entering the outpatient GI space, a few statistics on colonoscopy cases should be all the convincing you need....

Same-day spine surgery is having a moment right now. From cervical disc replacements to thoracic decompressions to microdiscectomies and more, ASCs across the U.S. are performing spine...

Atlantic Health System of Morristown, N.J., opened its Morristown Medical Center Rockaway Pavilion Ambulatory Surgery Center in November of last year, a 15,000-square-foot facility that boasts four...

Demand for same-day total joint replacements has never been higher for ASCs, thanks in part to a significant decrease in hospital inpatient procedures that began during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and never really let up....

When your own staff entrusts your facility to provide the same type of lifestyle-maintaining care that they’ve helped thousands of patients experience, it’s a real testament to the quality...

Sharona Ross, MD, FACS, became a surgeon in 2007, yet didn’t sit at her first robotics console until 2012. Eleven years later, 99% of her cases, many of them complex cancer procedures, are performed robotically....

Ten years ago, I walked into a meeting with my current business partner, and he listed a handful of goals on a single eight-and-a-half by eleven-inch sheet of paper. A decade later, we’ve achieved all of those original goals....

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, surgical leaders and their teams have dealt with unprecedented levels of stress, as well as exceedingly volatile staffing situations....

Between the effects of a once-in-a-generation pandemic, increased patient demand and an aging population that will soon exceed the number of nurses available, ambulatory facility leaders everywhere are...