I was a kid when I first learned about Will. He was the brother I never met. Will had been taken from my parents before I was born, when he was just 2 years old. One day,...

Our cataract surgery patients never have to move from their pre-operative stretcher chair. We’ve programmed our 4 chairs to the exact height needed, per station,...

The 18-month-old in the recovery room wasn’t my case, but then his care took a sudden turn. When the toddler became hypoxic, the anesthesiologist looked at me and yelled...

Welcome to the world of time-release treatments — meds that you administer before or during surgery, but that keep working for days, weeks, months or even years,...

I’m not saying you must become a reimbursement guru, but in the business of surgery, where your revenue is generated by how you code your cases, you should at least...

Cancer Scare Continues to Inspire Patient-Friendly Designs; Q&A with Deborah Wingler, PhD, MSD-HHE, EDAC, patient advocate and creator of healing healthcare spaces.

7 Keys to Smart Sterile Processing Design; Bright and spacious areas are becoming centerpieces of instrument care.

On Point; Modernize to Thrive

All About ENT; Our single-specialty surgery center serves as a model of efficient design and cutting-edge care.

Building the Perfect Eye Center; A top-down look at constructing a new ophthalmology facility from the ground up.

Make Your ORs Infection Proof; There are plenty of ways to build bacteria-free zones when you're working with a clean slate.

A Facility Fit for Orthopedics; We're set to open a surgery center built to meet the growing demand for outpatient spine and same-day total joints.

Are You Set Up for Spine? Outfit your ORs for one of outpatient surgery's hottest specialties.

Bring Your GI Suite Up to Speed Without Breaking the Bank; Pay-per-use financing helped us fund our facility-wide makeover.

Dare to Dream Big; Tap into your imagination and creativity to design the ideal facility.

Becoming an opioid-sparing surgeon was the most liberating thing I've done in 25 years of practice. Why? Because before I started down this revolutionary path,...

Turnover time is money. And when you're looking at your bottom line, everything comes down to one big question: How fast can you get the room ready for the next case while...

How long can an endoscope hang in storage before you have to reprocess it again? There's no definitive answer, but 7 days is the consensus storage interval based on research...

Despite widespread coverage of high-profile outbreaks associated with unsafe injection practices, staff members who use needles and syringes continue to place patients...

Wrong-site blocks represent nearly one-fourth of all wrong-site procedures, yet we hear precious little about nerve block safety. Block site marks aren’t always visible,...