7 creative ways to cut your case costs. Smart, simple ideas that save my facility between $50,000 and $100,000 a year.

Keep track of physicians' preferences with this Idea That Works from Springfield, MO.

Staffing: How to run a thorough background check. Get to know potential new hires with a careful employee screening.

Let staffers quickly and easily grab needed crash cart supplies with this Idea That Works from Bloomington, Indiana.

Editor's Page: The Dirty Secret to Recycling in the OR - Outpatient Su

The evolving business of cataract outsourcing. Companies are doing much more than renting out phacos and techs to run them.

Nation's first dual-licensed surgery center opens in Colorado. Inside the little-known CMS ruling that lets ASCs operate as timeshare properties.

Did hospital lack fire safety plan? OR fire reveals N.Y.C. hospital's safety deficit. Lack of prevention plan was "immediate jeopardy situation."

Who was to blame for unnecessary appendectomy? Radiologist mixes up CT scans, but hospital should take most of the blame, says jury in $6M verdict.

Woman left brain-damaged after gastric surgery blames manufacturer for insufficient surgeon training. The court sided with the company, noting that it met the FDA's requirements.

Researchers target the 7 deadliest and most expensive emergency surgeries. Together, they account for more than 80% of deaths and inpatient costs.

FDA Panel: Synthetic Cartilage Implant for Big Toe Should Be Approved. The Cartiva device is used to treat degenerative and post-traumatic arthritis.

Making sure it's sterile. Sterilization assurance confirms what you can't see.

5 tips for better instrument decontamination. Removing variables and automating the process are the keys to better cleaning.

No one recognizes retained objects, but judge won't toss negligence case. Two pieces of plastic film found in patient's uterus, but how did they get there?

Standardize your skin prep practices. Get patients, surgeons and staff on board with your pre-op bathing, hair-clipping and skin-antisepsis protocols.

The new standard in endoscope reprocessing. A new national guideline offers clear advice for proper high-level disinfection.

Is FDA's push to ban powdered gloves long overdue? Experts say severe health hazards have been well known for years.

Take the bundled approach to infection control. Standardized protocols optimize efforts to prevent SSIs.

Look beneath the surface. Take an in-depth look at how you disinfect your clinical environment.