When you conduct a professional small business, quality should be one of your top priorities. In order to properly commit your company to offering high quality products and services as well as quality ...

As ASCs become a more convenient, less costly alternative to hospital-based surgeries, it’s important that sterile processing procedures are implemented properly and consistently to ensure safe and ...

Almost universally, creating and maintaining policies and procedures is on the top five list of things avoided and reviled in the healthcare leadership responsibilities list. Is it possible to make ...

PROCEDURAL AREAS are the heart of hospital operations. Surgical cases are a major contributor to hospitals’ net patient revenue. The total number of surgeries – inpatient and outpatient – equates to ...

Quality is the name of the game when your business is in the business of product creation. Whether your product is a fast food hamburger or hardware that may one day become part of a jet airplane, ...

Quality improvement is an ongoing process designed to improve patient care and experience. It may also prevent complacency, improve teamwork, raise the bar on innovation and reduce inefficiencies in ...

Heather Hilgendorf-Cooley, administrator of Davenport, Iowa-based Spring Park Surgery Center, explains how CMS adding procedures to the ASC payable list and gathering more data from surgery centers ...