Our blog-reading friends at AORN gave me a little challenge — what’s the throughput in ambulatory surgery centers? How many procedures per OR per year? After crawling through some sources that I already knew to have data about ambulatory surgery centers — with no luck — I came across a fascinating benchmarking resource that I did not know about — the Intellimarker. This resource is based on “a 2010 analysis of over 240 licensed freestanding ASCs.” And it’s free! Check it out!
AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTERS (multi-specialty)
Surgical Cases / Operating Room / Year
- 765 average
- 762 median
Surgical Cases / Operating Room / Day
- 3.1 average
- 3 median
Intellimarker: Ambulatory Surgery Centers Financial & Operational Benchmarking Study 2011, 6th ed. Dallas, TX: VMG Health, Nov. 2011, p. 23. Click here for full text: http://www.vmghealth.com/Downloads/VMG_Intellimarker11.pdf Posted by AHA Resource Center, (312) 422-2050, rc@aha.org
The NEXT Intellimarker is scheduled to be released August 2013, according to my telephone conversation with the publisher (972) 616-7787.
Filed under: Ambulatory surgery, Posted by Kim Garber, Surgery | Tagged: Ambulatory surgery centers utilization |
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