In both single-specialty urology and multi-specialty ASCs, longer, more complex procedures can be a good fit and good for profitability. The key for either type of facility is having a dedicated ...

A 3-year-old from West Texas is celebrating her first healthy Christmas at home thanks to a liver transplant. The highly ...

As technological advancements make more procedures appropriate for the outpatient setting, surgery centers are looking to add more complex procedures than they have performed in the past. Lori Vernon, ...

Compared with patients who undergo surgery within 1 month of emergency department presentation, those waiting 6 months or more had significant 20% increased odds of undergoing complex surgery, data ...

A new paper in the JNCI Cancer Spectrum, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the mortality rates for complex cancer procedures differ greatly between one-star hospitals (10.4%) and ...

Ambulatory Surgery Centers, also known as ASCs, are freestanding healthcare facilities focused on providing outpatient surgical care. Outpatient surgery offers significant benefits over inpatient ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—The use of intravascular imaging to guide complex PCI is associated with a significantly lower risk of target vessel failure when compared with conventional angiography, according to ...

Female surgeons at a large academic medical center perform less complex surgical procedures than their male counterparts, according to a new study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH ...