More than 130 Michigan hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, inpatient psychiatric facilities, ASCs and home health agencies received the 2019 Governor's Award of Excellence, Midland Daily News reports.

Medscape released its Best & Worst Places to Practice List chronicling the top states to practice in.

Removing sutures is a marketing opportunity for surgeons, according to hand surgeon Jay Talsania, MD. 

The increase in patients over the age of 65, minimally invasive surgery and chronic diseases are prompting the increasing use of ambulatory healthcare, according to a report from Research and Markets.

HPV, celiac disease and diabetes are the most-Googled diseases in the U.S., despite not being as deadly or as prevalent as heart disease, the nation's top killer disease, according to an analysis from insurance research company TermLife2Go.

ASCs can improve quality in three key ways, according to Marta Shultz, vice president of quality for Simplify ASC.

ASCs can ensure a safe, comfortable environment by continuously monitoring air temperature, humidity and pressure, according to PharmaWatch, a healthcare monitoring solutions provider.

Surgical smoke, or toxic emissions generated from surgical tools cutting and burning tissue during surgery, can negatively affect the surgeons and nurses that work in operating rooms who breathe in the smoke.

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce included an ASC on its list of best places to work for small companies, according to Inside Indiana Business.

Patient-focused care models, medication management and nurse education can improve ASC quality.

Procedures are more efficient when performed in an ASC compared to a hospital outpatient department, according to research published in the American Journal of Surgery.

Daryl Schiller, PharmD, shared four tips for preparing for the medication management aspect of an ASC accreditation survey in a LinkedIn post.

Nurses working in ASCs wear many hats, but one of the most prominent is quality improvement, according to an article in American Nurse Today, the journal of the American Nurses Association.

There are myriad resources ASCs can use to benchmark their performance against other centers and to submit their own quality data.

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found covert observation of hand hygiene compliance helps detect change over time, but may not improve compliance as much as thought.

David Hamilton, CEO of Mnet Health Services, a healthcare finance outsourcing company, outlined three ways to improve ASC quality through improved patient safety and outcomes.

  Because more patients are being treated in ASCs, customizing quality improvement measures to the outpatient environment is essential, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine Research.

There were 31 healthcare data breaches in March, about 14 percent higher than the average in the last five years, according to HIPAA Journal.

Hand hygiene compliance increases with the use of an electronic monitoring system, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

  Provation, a clinical productivity software provider serving 1,000 ASCs, has joined the ASC Quality Collaboration, an independent organization that develops standardized quality measures.