Outpatient surgery at a surgery center provides convenience, frequently has the best and latest equipment, and may offer easier scheduling and transportation options, Special to NJ.com Let's face ...

The popularity of ambulatory surgery centers has risen in recent years, as these centers are often seen as more convenient ...

Further, for outpatient facilities that are under the DPH — Medicare-certified facilities — there is no state requirement at all for reporting of adverse events. The same goes for infections, ...

Although more spine and orthopedic procedures are shifting to outpatient settings, some cases have faced roadblocks with migration. Spine and orthopedic surgeons discuss the outpatient procedures that ...

If you're in good health, experts say, an ambulatory surgery center procedure may work for you. "We've made so many advances with surgery—smaller incisions, so patients lose less blood; better ...

Essentially, there are three different types of outpatient surgery centers: ambulatory surgery centers (ASC), physician office surgery centers and hospital outpatient department surgery centers.

Surgery centers don't have to report deaths in 17 states. Leapfrog published figures based on surveys of 321 ambulatory surgery centers and 1,141 hospital outpatient surgery departments.

Since the first ambulatory surgery center opened in Phoenix in 1970, ASCs have made surgical procedures more available and convenient in most regions of the country.

Surrounded by bankers, engineers, contractors and others, Baxter Regional Medical Center officials officially broke ground Wednesday on the hospital’s new outpatient surgery center. The 23,000 ...

In the wake of the surgery-related death of comedian Joan Rivers, patient-safety leaders and some physicians are calling on outpatient surgery centers to carefully select elderly patients eligible ...