SPH Analytics named Grand Rapids, Minn.-based Lakewood Surgery Center a 2017 National APEX Quality Award winner for outstanding patient satisfaction and overall quality of care. 

Nicholas B. Frisch, MD, MBA, shared his thoughts on the importance of comprehensive screening and how physicians can implement it with Becker's ASC Review.

Electronic form and workflow solution provider FormFast will implement its solution in the ambulatory facilities of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.-based War Memorial Hospital.

SPH Analytics awarded Biloxi, Miss.-based Gulf Coast Outpatient Surgery Center the 2017 APEX Quality Award for outstanding patient satisfaction and overall quality of care.

SPH Analytics honored 108 healthcare facilities with the 2017 APEX Quality Award for outstanding patient satisfaction and overall quality of care, and 84 recipients were ASCs.

Nicholas B. Frisch, MD, MBA, is an orthopedic surgeon specialized in hip and knee replacement. Dr. Frisch performs inpatient cases at Ascension Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Mich., and outpatient cases at Michigan Institute for Advanced Surgery in Lake Orion, Mich.

Machine learning technology with real-time hand hygiene notification could be a cost-effective way to improve hand hygiene in outpatient settings, according to a study in the Journal of Hospital Infection.

A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll found 51 percent of Americans support a single-payer health plan, while 43 percent oppose it, the Washington Post reports.

ASA Physical Status IV patients can be treated successfully on an outpatient basis, but they're twice as likely as healthier patients to need hospital admissions afterward, according to Anesthesiology News.

Traverse City, Mich.-based Copper Ridge Surgery Center won the Intalere Healthcare Achievement Award for its Patient Experience Initiative called "The Way We Work Together," the Record Eagle reports.

State Sen. Jerry Hill (D-Calif.) is pushing legislation that would make California the first state to require physicians to inform patients if they are on probation for wrongdoing, including sexual misconduct, KSBW 8 reports.

In our ongoing series, Becker's ASC Review spoke with American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities’ Director of Accreditation Jeanne Henry about the organization's commonly cited deficiency related to having policies to handle a situation in which the surgeon or anesthesia provider becomes incapacitated.

Nurses are among the least likely workers to consider changing careers, according to an Indeed Hiring Lab analysis.

WalletHub released its annual report on the most and lease stressed states.

The Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine offered practices a series of steps to address physician burnout.

Cigna reached its goal of reducing opioid use among members by 25 percent, more than one year before it expected to hit that target, Forbes reports.

Henderson (Nev.) Hospital installed the Indigo-Clean continuous environment disinfecting operating room light fixtures in its outpatient surgery center.

A new pain management solution is now available at Loveland Surgery Center in Colorado.

Healthcare Analytics News compiled the total number of healthcare-related cyber incidents for the month of February, finding 300,000 patient records were put at risk through an array of security incidents.

The ECRI Institute ranked the top 10 patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations in 2018.