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In this special cost-saving issue, we've talked to outpatient surgery programs around the country to find out their best tips. In our cover package, we tell you how you can be environmentally friendly and save thousands in the process.
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Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA, has targeted recycling, with great success. At one hospital alone, Inova Fairfax, recycling saved about $37,000 in 2008, according to Seema Wadhwa, LEED AP, sustainability engineer at Inova.
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Stanford (CA) Hospital & Clinics has saved more than $14 million by evaluating 20,000 items bought from 6,000 vendors and dozens of standard operating procedures, and much of that savings has come from the hospital's ambulatory surgery facilities.
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(In this first part of a two-part series on innovative care and pricing plans being used for outpatient surgery, we tell you how Geisinger Health System has used a checklist of best practices to save money, plus implemented a price guarantee for members of its health plan. Next month, we'll tell you how another facility has used a price guarantee effectively.)
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Jersey Shore Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) in Summer's Point, NJ, reduced wasteful supplies and inventory by more than $80,000 in six months by taking a few simple steps that could be replicated by most outpatient surgery programs.
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There are many cost-saving ideas, salary information, and ways to enhance revenue in this issue of Same-Day Surgery more value that SDS is bringing to you. But what really is value? How do we measure it?
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Good news! Jobs at hospitals (public and private) and ambulatory health care services rank Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, among the best recession-proof jobs, according to a recently published book.
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If you aren't complying with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for issuing Hospital Issued Notices of Noncoverage (HINNs) and documenting them well, your hospital could face severe repercussions down the road, according to Jackie Birmingham, RN, MS, CMAC, vice president of regulatory monitoring for Curaspan Health Group, a Newton, MA, health care technology and services firm.
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In an effort to improve transitions of care, the nurse care coordinators at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston make follow-up calls to patients who have been discharged, identify problems and solve them, and answer questions the patients may have about medication, symptoms, or their discharge plan.
