The operating rooms represent the heart of a hospital's surgical services and can dictate financial viability, as it makes up approximately 60-70 percent of any one hospital's margin. Because of this, hospital leaders must pay careful attention and exercise due…
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Philip S. Koerper, MD, chief of anesthesia at Kentucky Surgery Center, recently sat down with an editorial staff member at Beckers ASC Review. He discusses five ways that ambulatory surgery center's anesthesiologists can help promote high-quality patient care and good…
Maintaining high-caliber efficiency is a fundamental practice for hospitals looking to contain high healthcare costs, improve clinical outcomes and maintain high levels of physician as well as patient satisfaction. All these factors contribute to a hospital's bottom line, so it…
An $80.8 million renovation will triple the size of the emergency department at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, according to a Crain’s New York Business report. NYU Langone officials said the hospital’s current ED is poorly configured,…
Neal Maerki, administrator of Bend (Ore.) Surgery Center, says his surgery center employs a clever tactic to incent physicians to come to partnership meetings. The center holds a partnership meeting every six months, and Mr. Maerki started offering physicians $200…
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Cleveland Clinic has announced plans for its Center for Personalized Healthcare, which will offer tools for providers to tailor care plans to the individual characteristics of each patient, according to a Clinic news release. The center will provide medical staff…
Primary care and specialist physicians often do not get referral information from each other, but there are ways to improve communications, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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When hospitals purchase ASCs from physician-owners and convert them into hospital outpatient departments, they may also set up co-management arrangements with former physician-owners. "The co-management vehicle allows for the development, management, efficiency and quality improvement of the HOPD by rewarding…
Presaging what might happen under federal healthcare reform, a study of the effects of Massachusetts' reform finds many residents are visiting EDs because they can’t find a primary care physician, according to a report by the Boston Herald.