When Woodrow Moore needed a balloon angioplasty and single stent implant, he chose to have the procedures performed at the Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center in Katy. Fixes like these...

Making sure patients are positioned for surgery with safety in mind is a critical part of any procedure. Issues with positioning can make a straightforward surgery...

Shoulder replacements can be difficult to perform, especially when anatomical deformities in the joint and missing bone in the scapula increase the complexity...

The day was like any other to the physicians and staff who bustled about the Warren Clinic, the office space of an orthopedic medical group on the campus of...

I’ll never forget absentmindedly checking CNN’s homepage on Dec. 14, 2012, and being gutted by the image on the screen. A Connecticut state trooper, with a look of anguish on her face, was hurriedly leading a line of crying...

Healthcare Outcomes Performance (HOPCo), the largest orthopedic value-based care organization in the U.S. and a provider of musculoskeletal practice and clinical...

Total joint replacement service lines are migrating to outpatient settings, and the ways in which the ASCs that house them are laid out, staffed and outfitted are often unique....

Industry watchers look closely at pricing and cost benefits of surgeries performed in the hospital compared to the same procedures done in ambulatory surgery centers. ASC Focus, the ASCA Journal, reported new data online...

The Joint Commission offers an end-of-year analysis by the ambulatory care team to highlight the most frequently cited standards. According to the report, in 2021 the most challenging ambulatory care standards fell into these...

A study of nearly two million joint replacements over an eight-year period found no significantly higher complications in total hip replacements performed in outpatient settings as compared to inpatient procedures. The study...

Outpatient Surgery Magazine’s New Surgical Construction Bulletin (NSCB) reports daily on the construction and renovation activities in the outpatient community around the country. Some projects are multi-million-dollar...

Specimen handling is a complex process complete with many steps that healthcare providers must follow to the letter to ensure everything goes smoothly and safely....

New industry figures and key benchmarks were released by Avanza Healthcare Strategies in mid-March 2022, and they provide a pulse check on ASC operations and help drive decision-making for OR leaders and industry....

The American Joint Replacement Registry showed an increase in hip and knee procedures despite a pause in elective surgeries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR),...

Patient safety is always of concern for healthcare professionals who perform surgeries in ambulatory settings nationwide. A new report issued in March by ECRI outlines the top patient safety concerns for 2022....

New in 2022, Outpatient Surgery Magazine is taking a deep dive into significant trends in the ambulatory space with a special “Trend to Watch” article series in the magazine, appearing in print and online. The editors are talking...

UnitedHealth Group’s recently announced acquisition of Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) represents the latest signal that the $30 billion ambulatory surgery center (ASC) segment is moving to the forefront of the rapidly...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses estimates that a sharps injury occurs during as many as 15% of surgeries. It also found that about 64% of these injuries...

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies that offers innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical devices, Neurotechnology and Spine to help make...

The sound of the OR during surgery is truly something to behold. No, I’m not talking about the whirring of drills, the sloshing of fluids or the teeth of perioperative nursing staff shivering their way through another long...