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Partners in Efficiency? Your Choice. Your Demand.
When you focus on increasing business efficiencies today and into the 21st century, it might seem misplaced — or at best, tertiary — to strategically target the expectations you place on your vendor relationships. The days of just “sell you and leave you” should be in the past. So too should your lack of expectations and demands for true service; ...(More)
3/1/2008
Supply Purchasing: Making the Most of Your Resources
It’s not easy these days to be a supply manager in healthcare — faced with pricing and reimbursement that don’t accurately reflect true costs, purchasing managers must closely monitor their supply purchasing, use, and replacement. Balancing cost against adequate supply and patient safety is the name of the game.Physicians all have their favorite supplies and offering individualized choice to each ...(More)
3/1/2008
Endoscopic Innovations
As a nurse manager of a busy endoscopy unit, it can be very challenging for me to keep staff engaged in their work. It is always nice to see new technology come out, and also nice to have the ability to bring that technology into your endoscopy lab. Of course there are challenges such as budgetary restrictions and physician buy-in ...(More)
3/1/2008
Orthopedic Services: Is It Right for Your Center?
Bones, joints, muscles, nerves. What don’t orthopedic services deal with? Could you bring in more money by adding such procedures, or would that expansion reduce your bottom line and needlessly increase stress?Orthopedics deal with the diagnosis, care, and treatment of a huge breadth of disorders that pertain to the musculoskeletal system,¹ and as active members of the baby boomer generation ...(More)
3/1/2008
PRODUCT LOCATOR
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3/1/2008
What’s the Point?
Sharps safety has long been a concern of healthcare workers (HCWs), and countless safety devices have been implemented to improve the safety of nurses, techs, and other healthcare employees. Some primary prevention efforts have even eliminated sharps entirely. Despite these measures, HCWs are still being stuck with contaminated needles and other sharps, and are not always receiving the proper post-exposure ...(More)
3/1/2008
2008 Management Guide
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1/15/2008
Gaining & Maintaining Accreditation is Tough
Accreditation is a personal matter. Leaders of every ambulatory surgery center (ASC) have their reasons for or against it, and one accrediting body may work better for one facility than for the next. Timing is also important. Now might not work, but next year? The answer is up to the leaders of each business.Some people, however, swear by accreditation. The ...(More)
1/15/2008
The Birth Of An Integrated PM/EMR Application Specifically Made for Bariatric ASCs
As you may know, the launch of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) requires a task list a mile long. There are hundreds of tasks required to open just a single center. Developing business plans, construction plans, architects and accreditation is just the tip of the iceberg. Meeting federal, state and county requirements is a monumental task in and of itself. ...(More)
1/15/2008
The New “Three-Legged Stool”
The only thing constant is change. A quarter of a century ago, hospitals described what was called the “three- legged stool,” illustrating how the healthcare system worked and that each appendage was just as important as the other. One of the legs represented the board of directors. They were to establish overall policy and provide access to community funds that ...(More)
1/15/2008
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