Becker's Healthcare February 20, 2025
Gina Taylor, quality and accreditation program manager at Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health, joined Becker’s about the advantages of collaboration between ASCs and hospitals.
From quality improvements to enhanced recruitment efforts and financial stability, here are five benefits that ASCs can gain by aligning with hospital systems.
- Quality enhancement through collaboration
As a quality leader, Ms. Taylor emphasized how hospitals can bolster ASC quality initiatives by providing access to critical resources that independent ASCs may lack.
“We have access to resources that independent ASCs typically don’t, and we’ve been able to collaborate with different departments within the healthcare system — like pharmacy, lab teams, radiology, medical staff services and health information management,” she said. “These collaborations improve quality...