While the jury may still be deliberating on how effective some whole-room disinfection and/or air purification systems are in reducing healthcare-associated infections...

Performance Health Surgery Center, created by the ASC design veteran firm Hardaway | Sziabowski Architects, is a 14,700-square-foot, four-OR multispecialty surgery center...

Airway management is a crucial component of modern medicine and enabling the safe and effective administration of anesthesia during surgery is paramount to patient...

For arthroscopic surgeons, seeing is succeeding. They need their technology to deliver clear, detailed and brilliant images from surgical fields that are dark and full of fluid....

Scan your facility quickly and it’s easy to see all the equipment that would bring your daily operations to a halt if they broke down....

Is your volume up? Are you adding a new service line such as cardiology with more complex coding? If the demands of revenue cycle management (RCM) are...

There’s more to patient satisfaction than providing stellar outcomes for the problems they sought surgery to fix....

A safety-first culture in your operating room includes protecting the staff as well as the patients....

Foot and ankle surgeries have long been performed same-day, but advances in technique and reimbursement have driven them increasingly to ASCs....

When it comes to making big-ticket purchases, two clinicians with decades of experience in ambulatory surgery centers like to ask questions in sets of three...

For patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), visiting a surgical facility can be a harrowing experience....

Surgery is still largely a male-dominated profession across all service lines, but nowhere in the industry is the disparity more pronounced than orthopedics....

Having had my new knee, Laverne, for exactly one year, it was time to replace the other one. Same surgeon, hospital and robotic-assisted surgery....

If you’re looking for objective, meticulously sourced data to benchmark your surgery centers against similar facilities, you’re in luck....

Maintaining a proper work-life balance is particularly difficult for surgical nurses like me....

As the frontline defenders against pathogens, infection preventionists (IPs) play a significant role in safeguarding patients and staff....

Stamford ASC, an orthopedic and spine center in Connecticut, has grown steadily since opening in 2016 and they wanted that upward trend to continue....

As soon as the speaker thanks attendees and steps offstage to conference-appropriate applause (a sound a few decibels above a golf clap), I rush toward the front of a packed...

The business and administrative staff play a pivotal role in every surgery center’s success....

In a busy ophthalmic center, anything you can do to improve flow and simplify processes is worth its weight in gold. At Newsom Surgery Center of Sebring (Fla.)...