LINK – New Ways to Calculate the Risks of Surgery
Facing abdominal surgery for colon and uterine cancer, Kathleen Rivard listened last Thursday as Stuart Bussell, her surgeon at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, laid out the odds: a 1% risk [...]
LINK – N.J. group collects medical supplies to help Haiti earthquake survivors
UNION TOWNSHIP — As desperate doctors improvise in Haiti — replacing morphine with shots of liquor and surgical blades with hacksaws — volunteers here are ramping up efforts to collect [...]
Focus on Patients
The Missouri Ambulatory Surgery Center Association and the ASC Association have teamed up to create a web site to help provide Missouri residents with the information necessary to make informed [...]
MOCPS Information
A copy of the contract you will need to engage the MOCPS is available here.
It is our understanding that MO HealthNet will not be proactive in its enforcement of this rule, [...]
Ambulatory surgical centers may exceed performance of hospitals for certain procedures
New research from the journal Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery
Alexandria, VA – Measuring five quality-base performance areas, an ambulatory surgical center out performed a standard hospital based surgical center [...]
An Adverse Event: Not Realizing the Full Potential of High Quality, Lower Cost Patient Care
By Travis H. Brown, MBA
The expansion of consumer choices among healthcare facilities has brought many things to the marketplace: surgical decisions that offer convenience at lower costs, localized competition [...]
“We Don’t Need No Stinking Balanced Budget!”
Carl Bearden
You may recognize the quote from which the title of this blog was irreverently taken. Most people would incorrectly identify the quote from “The Treasure of the Sierra [...]
