J U N E 2 0 1 6 • O U T PA T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T • 7
Outpatient Surgery
Magazine
www
outpatientsurgery.net
June
2016
How Safe Are Your
Patients?
Timeshare
Surgery Centers
New for Minimally
Invasive Surgery
Are Your Scopes
Really Clean?
You Might Be Having
A Bad Day If...
You'll worry, too, when you see the results
of our patient safety survey.
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On the Cover
Our survey of nearly 500 surgi-
cal administrators revealed
some alarming trends: Time
outs are being skipped, short-
cuts are being taken and never
events continue to happen while
the blame game and physician
arrogance thwart the open com-
munication needed to prevent
adverse events. How safe are
your patients? Not as safe as
you might think.
Cover design by Ethan Anderson
Photo by Pamela Bevelhymer, RN, BSN
8 Editor's Page
Changing of the Guard
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
12 Ideas That Work
• Clean up GYN cases in a snap
• Flowers for every patient
• Welcoming waiting rooms
22 Business Advisor
Time for Timeshare Surgery Centers?
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
28 Medical Malpractice
Don't Get Tripped Up With These EHR Errors
Clifford Earl Robertson II, JD
32 Coding & Billing
Collecting Co-pays on the Day of Surgery
Prerna Gupta
36 Safety
Get the Most Out of Your Safety Checklist
Jessica Geddings, BSN, RN, NE-BC, CSPDT
118 Thinking of Buying …
Rigid Sterilization Containers
An open-and-shut case for bypassing blue wrap.
John Meggs, MSC, CRCST
126 Infection Prevention
Can Anesthesia Providers Spread Infection?
Chuck Biddle, CRNA, PhD
130 Product News
136 Cutting Remarks
Maimonides, the Great Healer
John D. Kelly IV, MD
139 Behind Closed Doors
You Might Be Having a Bad Day If…
Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR
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