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The ASCA 2024 Conference & Expo is just one week away! ASCA’s annual conference has the resources, education and networking opportunities you need to lead your surgery center to success. Tomorrow is the last day to register online. Don’t wait— sign up now! |
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On this week’s audio update, ASCA CEO Bill Prentice discusses recent changes to the ASCA bylaws relating to the election of ASCA Board members and introduces three new board candidates, as well as two returning board members. Bill also provides a quick overview of ASCA’s Clinical & Operational Benchmarking Survey and the benefits it offers both members and nonmembers of the association. |
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Download This Free Policy and Save Yourself The Hassle
Potential HIPAA breaches are among the most common compliance risks — are you confident your organization’s employees know what to do?
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Be sure to check out the latest edition of ASCA’s “ ASC Physician Brief,” a quarterly one-pager to share with both the owner and nonowner physicians who work in your ASC. The Spring 2024 edition, which covers this year’s National Advocacy Day, how Medicare’s physician payment policies are in flux and more, is now available on ASCA’s website. |
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Submit your data for the first quarter (Q1) of ASCA’s 2024 Clinical & Operational Benchmarking Survey. This valuable online resource provides data you can use to improve clinical outcomes, staff indicators, billing performance and more at your facility. If you haven’t already, subscribe today so you can submit your data in April and receive a full year of national comparison data. There have been a few updates to the survey platform. Please be mindful of these changes as you submit your data. |
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Reveal the hidden areas of instruments with the TOSI® washer test
Reveal the hidden areas of instruments with the TOSI® washer test, the easy-to-use blood soil device that directly correlates to the cleaning challenge of surgical instruments. TOSI® is the first device to provide a consistent, repeatable, and reliable method for evaluating the cleaning effectiveness of the automated instrument washer.
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The expansive impact of the Change Healthcare cyberattack was a wake-up call for a health care system that's now racing to safeguard itself against another industry-rattling hack. There's recently been increased focused on defending individual health care organizations against bad actors as the vulnerable sector increasingly finds itself under attack.
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Axios (04/08/24) Tina Reed
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Third-party research found ASCs are saving an average of $177,000 by implementing HST eChart. We used the research to build an EMR ROI calculator so you can input your center’s data to see the potential cost reductions when switching off paper. Try the calculator to discover your potential savings in seconds. Click here to try it now!
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Press Ganey, the leader in helping healthcare providers and health plans transform the Human Experience, today published its new report, "Safety in Healthcare 2024." This first-of-kind report analyzes Press Ganey's integrated dataset of safety outcomes, event reporting, workforce culture, and patient perceptions representing 12 million patient encounters, 1 million healthcare employees, as well as over 550,000 reported safety events in 2023.
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Business Wire (04/02/24)
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Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) have seen immense procedural and facility growth over the past decade, driving significant MedTech manufacturer focus on this care setting. We spoke with leaders in the industry, including physicians with an equity stake in an ASC, CEOs of hospital/physician joint venture ASCs, and development directors of ASC management companies, capturing in-depth perspectives from clinical and administrative leadership at both the local and corporate/investor level.
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IQVIA (03/15/24)
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Bringing inexperienced clinicians up to speed on real-world patient care is the No. 1 safety issue troubling healthcare providers in 2024, according to ECRI’s latest annual report on the topic. Difficulties orienting new clinicians to their day-to-day duties rose to the top largely due largely to two vexing challenges: lingering effects from pandemic-related training disruptions and ongoing shortages in the healthcare workforce.
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HealthExec (03/15/24) Dave Pearson
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Brunswick Surgery Center recently received four certificates of excellence from accreditation organization DNV Healthcare, according to a news release. The certificates were for four subspecialties that DNV surveys: advanced foot and ankle surgery, advanced hip and knee replacement, advanced shoulder surgery, and advanced spine surgery.
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WilmingtonBiz (NC) (04/05/24)
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When Caoimhe Duffy, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine, came to Penn from her home in Ireland in 2020, she was surprised more wasn’t being done to mitigate the negative impacts of anesthetic gases, many of which are greenhouse gases. Most of the anesthetics used in surgery are ultimately exhaled from the patient unchanged.
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Penn Medicine News (03/29/24) Christina Hernandez Sherwood
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About ASCAMission: The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) is the national membership association that represents ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and provides advocacy and resources to assist ASCs in delivering high-quality, cost-effective ambulatory surgery to all the patients they serve. About Us: At ASCA, we are eager to help you become better acquainted with our nation's ASCs and the people who own and operate them. We are also eager to help you develop policies on ASC-related issues. If you have questions, please contact us. We'll put you in touch with the experts and, if you like, arrange for you to visit an ASC in your area. Contact Us: Advertising inquiries should be addressed to Chris Schriever or Alex Yewdell at 202.337.1897 or at advertising@ascassociation.org. Follow ASCA on
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