It's not that difficult to learn from your mistakes. All it takes is gathering your nurses and surgical techs for a half-hour meeting every few months to talk about errors...

Over the past few years, a number of employees who work in our health system's outpatient surgery center have become new moms. When they returned...

With all the pressure central sterile staff are under to keep cases flowing through high-volume facilities, the last thing you want to do is give them an excuse to avoid...

Amid our nation's opioid crisis, providers are shifting their focus to formulations and methods that make post-op pain more bearable instead of eliminating it completely....

Counts Aren't Always Correct; Barcode scanning and RFID detection help to make sure no sponge is left behind.

Help Patients Pay for Surgery; Understanding how healthcare credit cards work will help you select the one that's best for your facility — and those who come to you for care.

There's always the possibility that a patient with an active infection will arrive at your facility for surgery. To prevent SSIs and stop the spread of multi-drug resistant...

A Better Way to Treat BPH; Men with enlarged prostates are seeking out surgeons who offer a minimally invasive solution to their symptoms.

Our facility knew the benefits of administering IV acetaminophen preoperatively to reduce post-op pain, but it was always in short supply or cost prohibitive....

Editor's Page;Wait... What's a Mayo Stand?

The one- and two-gram IV piggyback infusion bags of the antibiotic cefazolin we were using exclusively in 2018 were almost always on backorder and delivery...

When it was time to expand our spine practice to meet an increase in case volume, we wanted to build a surgical facility where surgeons could perform innovative outpatient...

We’ve helped plan and build numerous GI centers and know from experience the amount of time and resources top-performing facilities have invested in smart...

You helped design Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Josie Robertson Surgery Center in New York City, a state-of-the-art facility that reimagined how spaces appear and function....

Surgeons who walk into a new OR expect to see 4K ultra-high-definition images splashed across large flat screen video monitors hung throughout the room....

Any architect can place ORs steps away from pre-op bays and within shouting distance of central sterile. What they might not realize is those elements of efficient surgical...

At Mount Sinai West in Manhattan, we just wrapped up a massive $24 million expansion of our sterile processing department that transformed the space from a 2,000-...

When our ENT practice decided to build a standalone surgery center in late 2017, we knew it would be a significant project. Although our surgeons had access to high-quality...

The main medical campus of the Medical University of South Carolina sits on the Charleston peninsula between Routes 17 and 30, in the midst of seemingly constant...

Taylor Cera, MBA, the chief operating officer at Youngstown (Ohio) Orthopaedic Associates, remembers enjoying eggs and toast on a lazy Saturday morning when his...