The ambulatory surgical center environment is a busy one with many caseloads being handled by an expert team of healthcare professionals....

A female nursing student found dead Feb. 22 in a wooded area of the University of Georgia campus in Athens hours after she failed to return from a run at a nearby...

Immersed in their day-to-day, employees can often lose their sense of the ultimate reason they are working so hard....

Although surgery demands the in-person presence of most employees, some nonclinical personnel may work remotely or on a hybrid basis....

Talk about a strong endorsement: John Berdahl, MD, an ophthalmologist at Vance Thompson Vision in Sioux Falls, S.D., counts his mother and father as patients...

A comfortable patient who is ready for eye surgery is essential for the provider to achieve an optimal outcome....

As the cataract reimbursement scene keeps changing, surgeons and facility leaders must feel like they’re on a roller coaster they never agreed to ride in the first place....

There has been an enormous amount of media attention and general buzz surrounding the new glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1) medications semaglutide...

As the ambulatory environment continues to evolve, outpatient facilities are utilizing regional pain blocks to control pain management in select patients who...

Leaders absorbed in the weeds of “hard” tactics, strategies and policies often can neglect their “soft” people skills....

Many modern surgical facilities are drowning in the massive amount of data they routinely collect from patients, payors, charting, equipment and more....

I’ve worked in the surgery for so long I can see the resemblance of my OR peeps to certain animals. Which ones do you resemble...?

Costing systems are essential to the sustainability and profitability of any successful anesthesia practice....

The calendar says 2024 — and that means the start of a new year of performance improvement projects. You know, those multiple continuous initiatives during...

Unsatisfactory compliance with a major price-disclosure law that went into effect three years ago has resulted in multiple similar proposed laws that seek to improve...

Over the holidays, I spent a week in Tulum, Mexico, gawking at Mayan ruins, snorkeling with sea turtles, swimming through otherworldly cenotes and serving...

Have you noticed one of your co-workers staying late to help another colleague, or taking time to walk with a patient’s family member rather than just pointing them...

When Tabitha Hoffman, MSN, RN, RNC-OB, NPD-BC, recently spoke with the five-person central sterile processing (CSP) staff at WellSpan Health Apple Hill Surgical Center...

Provider stress and burnout didn’t just magically disappear following the end of the pandemic. It did, however, stress to health systems that providers need time...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced us all to adjust and adapt on the fly like never before in an endless variety of ways personally, socially and professionally....