When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a wide-reaching ban on noncompete employment agreements in April, companies everywhere went into a tizzy....

My seven-year-old son is keeping his promise and sitting quietly next to me on his tablet while I conduct an after-hours interview video with Michelle Caird, an orthopedic...

Departments looking to foster professional development will often decide to start a journal club. But these departments tend to struggle with where to begin....

It cannot be overstated that the management of allergy information is an essential part of both the patient experience and patient safety at your ASC....

If you’re looking for a good way to offer hard-working staff some stress relief and help the local community, you can’t go wrong with puppies....

We’ve featured quite a few escape rooms over the years, focusing mostly on the camaraderie and fun they provide as staff education and training exercises....

Some patients have a deep-seated fear of needles that can taint even the smoothest surgical experience....

You can’t lead others if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership goes beyond self-care, however. It’s about understanding the relationship you have with yourself...

Providers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Endoscopy Department know that the care of their patients begins well before they arrive for their appointments...

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....

Procedures like carpal tunnel release are among the many that are moving from hospitals and ASCs to physician offices as more robust data continues to emerge...

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...