Becker’s Hospital Review
To add an ASC or grow their number of surgery centers, hospitals and health systems are increasingly exploring whether to convert existing hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) to ASCs. Yet this is an approach rife with risk if those involved in the project do not understand or fully appreciate the dynamics of such a conversion. Avanza Senior Consultant Julie Hamberis, MBA-HA, BSN, RN, CNOR, identifies some of the most common mistakes Avanza has seen hospitals and health systems making when converting an HOPD to an ASC in a Becker’s Hospital Review column.
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