Same-Day Surgery (Vol. 41, No. 3) - March 2017

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.

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.

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.

Study Data Before Making Workflow or Productivity Changes

The first step to improving efficiency and productivity is to collect metrics and employee workflow habits.

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.

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.

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.

Ready for That Survey? Here are Some Helpful Tips

Here’s what everyone about to be surveyed has in common: Fear.

HFAP Changes Standards After Updated Life Safety Code Rules

ASCs must meet environmental safety standards, but they do not always put the most knowledgeable people in charge of this task, which could result in a big mistake.

Here are Some Sample Items From New HFAP Requirements

HFAP has released new environmental rules in its accreditation requirements for ASCs.

Same-Day Surgery – March 1, 2017

March 1, 2017