The New Paradigm of PartnershipHistorically, the relationship between hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers could be characterized in many cases as adversarial. Hospitals often perceived ASCs as a ...

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, is the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers. Here she shares 10 ideas for quality improvement studies in a surgery center. 2. How many ...

Nurses at Stony Brook University Hospital’s ambulatory surgery center have developed a new method of performing peripheral nerve blocks for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery procedures, according ...

Jennifer Brown, RN, endoscopy nurse manager of Gastroenterology Associates of Central Virginia in Lynchburg, Va., shares five tips on successfully implementing an EHR system in a practice or ...

Cleveland Clinic is working with a firm called Regent Surgical to develop new outpatient surgery centers at to-be-determined locations. The outpatient centers will improve access to surgeries, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Clinic has jumped on the national billion-dollar healthcare trend of creating outpatient surgery centers for minimally invasive surgeries such as knee and hip ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Each year, more than 100,000 patients who have experienced a stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA), also known as a “mini-stroke,” undergo a carotid artery stenting procedure to ...

When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.