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Ready for That Survey? Here are Some Helpful Tips
Here’s what everyone about to be surveyed has in common: Fear.
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Message to Surgery Industry: Here Are the Things I Notice
I have worked in the surgery industry for four decades and during that time, I have noticed things that perhaps others have not. The following are some of my observations, with which you may or may not agree.
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Revisit Staff’s Hand Hygiene to Address Infection Control
Take May 5 — World Hand Hygiene Day — to make sure infection control and hand hygiene rules and practices are up to date, incorporating both regulatory and advisory guidelines.
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Create Sound Financial Plan to Carry ASC Through 2017
Strategic planning is a little-recognized talent that surgery centers should develop if they hope to achieve their goals and prepare for future growth.
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Study Data Before Making Workflow or Productivity Changes
The first step to improving efficiency and productivity is to collect metrics and employee workflow habits.
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With a Smart Focus, ASC Leader Spins Gold from Inventory Changes
A focus on smarter inventory purchases and changing physician habits can reap significant savings for an ASC.
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Small ASC Doubles, But Experiences Few Growing Pains
As an ASC grows, a key strategy to its success is focusing on staff, staying sensitive to their need for work-life balance and keeping lines of communication open.
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In the Year of the Rooster, Best ASC Strategy Is Focus On Self
In an uncertain healthcare climate, ambulatory surgery centers can focus on what can be controlled by working to improve the organization’s productivity and efficiency.
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Common Orthopedic Injuries
Orthopedic injuries are a common reason for emergency department (ED) visits. Orthopedic injuries should be diagnosed promptly and accurately and treated to optimize the outcome.
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EH Urged To Take Annual AOHP Exposure Survey
Employee health professionals are being urged to enter their 2016 exposure data into the annual Exposure Survey of Trends in Occupational Practice by the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare.