HealthLeaders Media June 29, 2020
Surgical Care Affiliates, which has ambulatory surgery centers in 35 states, has been able to rebound to about 90% of pre-coronavirus patient volume.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Safety measures at Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) include universal masking, social distancing, and limiting staff to essential personnel.
– At SCA, efforts to manage backlogs of procedures delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic include boosting efficiency and providing clinical guidance to physicians.
– To enable reopening efforts, SCA helped its partner physician practices adopt or expand telemedicine capabilities.
Safety, managing surgery backlogs, and telemedicine are key elements of reopening ambulatory surgery centers during the coronavirus pandemic, an ASC chief medical officer says.
With the nationwide cancelation of most elective surgeries in March to boost...
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