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LINK: Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee Launches Campaign
A new Web site touting ambulatory surgery centers is the centerpiece of a campaign that seeks to raise awareness about the high-quality, patient-centered care that ASCs provide and the significant [...]
Proposed Colorado Bill Targets Surgical Techs
Surgical techs in Colorado would be subjected to increased state regulation under a pair of bills proposed in the wake of a scandal involving a drug-addicted tech who stole fentanyl [...]
LINK: Hospital mass layoffs hit new high in 2009
Hospitals in 2009 experienced the greatest number of mass layoffs since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking those numbers in 1996, according to a report the Dept. of Labor [...]
Ambulatory Surgery Center Advocacy Committee Affirms National Institutes of Health’s Commitment to Colorectal Cancer Screenings
WASHINGTON, D.C.– This week the National Cancer Institute and the Office of Medical Applications of Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) convened a State-of-the-Science Conference to assess the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FAQs
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Are ASCs subject to regulation?
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Yes, ASCs are some of the most highly regulated health care providers in the country. Medicare has certified 85 percent of the centers. All states except [...]