Prentice to lead ambulatory surgery association

William Prentice has been named executive director of the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation and the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. He starts Oct. 4 and replaces Kathy Bryant, who held the same position under the title of president. More » This article requires a Basic Web subscription. Log in or register [more...]

Date: 2010-09-24 23:00:00

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One article says ambulatory surgery, with its potential cost savings, may keep the health insurance industry from fall and harness the health cost inflation rate. * An article about in vitro fertilization states that since July 1978, more than 150 babies throughout the world have been conceived in laboratory platees and carried to term in their mothers’ [more...]

Date: 2010-09-29 01:06:33

Vassar hospital begins major expansion - DailyFreeman.com

POUGHKEEPSIE – Vassar Brothers Medical Center officials and community leaders ceremonially broke ground Wednesday for a major expansion that will include an ambulatory surgery center, medical office building, parking garage as well as café/retail space. The expansion includes renovations to the existing hospital and a new clinical building with a focus on improving the patient experience in the most heavily used and growing departments at the hospital. The new space, totaling 78,000 square feet, should be ready by the fall of 2011. Hospital president and chief executive officer Dr. Daniel [more...]

Date: 2010-10-07 13:39:41

September 25 Kaiser Permanente to Host Free Surgery Saturday

Those patients will assemble with the medical team early Saturday morning at the nearby outpatient surgery center in Bellflower for a series of operations to remove gallstones, repair hernias, and perform other general surgery procedures. While the event may be a first for Downey Medical Center, it is actually the seventh “Free Surgery Day” Kaiser Permanente community benefit program has hosted as part of its partnership with Access OC (Orange County) since 2007. Access OC is a program designed to strengthen the safety net of healthcare services for lower-income residents. In the Inland [more...]

Date: 2010-09-24 13:31:16

NovaMed Adds Seven New Partners to Its Orlando Surgery Center

One of these physicians is an orthopedic surgeon and the other two are general surgeons. NovaMed now owns 62 percent of Downtown Surgery Center with the remaining 38 percent owned by seven physician-partners and a hospital-partner. "We are excited to welcome our new partners and look forward to working with each of them at our state-of-the-art surgery center," commented Thomas S. Hall, chairman, president and chief executive officer of NovaMed, Inc. "We opened Downtown Surgery Center in January 2009 with our partner, George White, MD, a highly respected orthopedic surgeon. Downtown Surgery [more...]

Date: 2010-09-29 22:22:00

Sacramento Press / Sacramento Native American Health Center ...

AAAHC, founded in 1979, is the leader in ambulatory health care accreditation with almost 5000 organizations accredited nationwide. The AAAHC accredits a variety of ambulatory health care organizations, including ambulatory surgery [more...]

Date: 2010-10-05 22:55:34

Ambulatory and Inpatient Surgery Benchmark Data

Publication: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical; Brief #86: Hospital-Based Ambulatory Surgery, 2007. Published February 2010. [more...]

Date: 2010-07-21 20:22:11

Outpatient Surgery's Financial Advantage - Mississippi Valley ...

“The MVSC and Mississippi Valley Health Network of practices keeps health care costs down because our training emphasizes minimally invasive procedures that promote faster healing; and the surgery center’s outpatient services ensure you recover at home and avoid expensive hospital stays,” adds Dr. Dooley. Home the Same Day: Back to Life the Next Cost effective? Convenient? Faster Recovery? Just ask Coal Valley resident Dennis Gooch. As an avid hobbyist with radio-controlled airplanes, he has to run around quite a bit when he’s flying one of the 40 or so planes in his collection. The [more...]

Date: 2010-07-12 05:25:49

Guardian National Insurance Company Ltd » City Health Insurance Iowa

The new facility will include large, private rooms and a significant expansion of the rehabilitation services, outpatient specialty clinics and ambulatory surgery facility. (IowaPolitics). New IowaCare site makes health care more [more...]

Date: 2010-10-07 09:48:34

Dr. Graivier in AJC (Silicone Implants) | North Atlanta Plastic ...

Memberships. American Society of Plastic Surgeons. American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities · American College of Surgeons · The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery [more...]

Date: 2010-08-19 11:46:55

The Cost Of Treating Varicose Veins

Laser skin resurfacing treatment This method can reduce the appearance of moderate to mild varicose veins among other types of skin irregularities. The procedure of ablative resurfacing has a national average treatment cost of around $2,341 according to the 2009 figures of ASAPS, but the non-ablative resurfacing method could cost an average of $845 for a single treatment. Ambulatory phlebectomy This method is also called as invasive vein removal surgery. Although it is highly effective it is also the most costly alternative to treat varicose vein. The average cost for this surgery can greatly [more...]

Date: 2010-09-14 10:18:03

American Anesthesiology Announces the Acquisition of ...

In addition, the practice provides anesthesia services at 11 ambulatory surgery centers in the Charlotte metropolitan area, which includes part of South Carolina, as well as one facility in Virginia Beach, VA. Annual anesthesia volume at the practice is approximately 111,000 cases. The group also provides services at 10 pain management centers throughout metropolitan Charlotte with annual volume of approximately 50,000 patient visits. The group employs eight physician assistants and six certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) who work with the physicians. The physicians practice under [more...]

Date: 2010-10-04 13:15:14

President Obama Is Trying To Fake Us Out Again!

Medicare payments to ambulatory surgery centers will be cut. Ambulatory surgery centers cost less than hospital surgery centers. It is not wise economically to drive ambulatory surgical centers out of business. Medicare will cut payments for diagnostic labs and durable medical equipment companies. The government should be stimulating competition and innovation. If should be negotiating prices. It should not be dictating prices. New Medicare will decrease payment to long term care hospitals. Long term care hospitals charge less than acute care hospitals. However, these hospitals are charging [more...]

Date: 2010-10-03 12:13:11

Bernstein & Associates, Architects: Ambulatory Surgery Center Design

Ambulatory surgery centers are healthcare facilities, based outside of a hospital, usually owned by a physician’s group, where patients undergo surgical procedures which can be done on an outpatient basis, and do not require an overnight stay. However, ambulatory surgery centers are highly technical, highly regulated facilities, with many requirements and checkpoints to maximize patient safety. The ambulatory surgery center program revolves around the operating rooms. There are Class A operating rooms, Class B operating rooms and Class C operating rooms --- each addressing different [more...]

Date: 2010-08-29 14:02:00

Cosmetic Surgery. Better Cosmetic Surgery Also, houston plastic ...

The Emerge Network wants to help you develop your spirituality, competence and media communication skills. Sign In Membership is by invitation only. If you have an invitation, click the link in the email to join. Email Address Password Forgot your [more...]

Date: 2010-09-16 18:24:45

Division of Labour: On Competition Between Ambulatory Surgery ...

One of the many supposed evils of the health care marketplace is the ambulatory surgery center (ASC), a facility which supposedly drains patients from traditional hospitals and constrains cross-subsidization of medical services. However, a new paper by Charles Courtemanche and Michael Plotzke in the Journal of Health Economics finds only very modest overlap between ASCs and surgery performed at traditional hospitals. The paper's abstract: This paper estimates the effect of ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) on hospital surgical volume using hospital and year fixed effects models with several [more...]

Date: 2010-09-01 13:44:03

6 Best Practices for Implementing an Effective Infection Control ...

Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgery Center, who presents examples of Infection Control policies and measures that have been tried and tested in real world scenarios. Here’s an example: Monitor physicians and staff members. Denise Kesler, director of Athens (Ga.) Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgery Center, says the facility established a monitoring policy where staff members in each department, such as the OR, are selected to secretly monitor their co-workers compliance to hand hygiene protocols. “It’s done anonymously, so no one knows they’re being watched,” she says. “The monitor tallies up [more...]

Date: 2010-10-04 12:04:54

AORN Ambulatory Conference Begins October 28th

If you are an Ambulatory Surgery professional certainly you must already know about the AORN Ambulatory Conference scheduled in Denver the last week of October.  This is a time to learn first hand about critical issues facing ASC’s.  There will be networking opportunities and you will be able to meet with your colleagues from around the country. Program Topics: Our Future Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Medicare Conditions of Coverage: Infection Control Compliance Workshop Medication Management in the Ambulatory Setting Cleaning Verification – The Key to Quality Assurance: [more...]

Date: 2010-09-26 16:00:08

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