Same-Day Surgery – December 1, 2010
December 1, 2010
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Next month: Cost-saving tips in outpatient surgery
Next month's issue will focus on saving money and generating revenue in outpatient surgery. -
Research, reimbursement support: Motivate patients to stop smoking
A just-released study showing that smokers have significantly more complications post-surgery than non-smokers, including a higher death rate, coupled with new Medicare reimbursement for physicians who provide counseling to prevent tobacco use for outpatients and hospitalized patients have outpatient surgery managers taking a new look at smoking cessation programs. -
Alert fatigue leads to OR fatalities
Alert fatigue can lead to behaviors in health care that might seem fine until the day they cause a tragedy, says John Banja, PhD, assistant director for health sciences and clinical ethics at Emory University in Atlanta. -
AORN deletes guidance for home laundering
In its previous "Recommended Practice for Surgical Attire," the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) didn't recommend home laundering, but for those facilities that did it, it offered some guidance on how to do it as safely as possible. -
Center's CEO recognized for infection control efforts
The winner of the Healthcare Administrator Award from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is the chief executive officer of an ambulatory surgery center. -
Same-Day Surgery Manager: Be inspired to set goals for yourself
Like most, I was inspired by the rescue of the Chilean miners in October. I felt an enormous urge to accomplish something significant, to finish projects I had left dangling or follow up on other issues that individually weren't a big deal but collectively were. -
Center evacuates patients and staff
It was a busy Friday in September at the Farmington Surgery Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Patients were recovering from anesthesia.