Working on the Weekends
Who's Opening Their ORs on Saturdays?
How much longer will Saturday be a day of rest in outpatient surgery? More than one-fifth (21 percent) of hospitals perform non-emergency outpatient cases on Saturdays, according to our reader survey. And while only 2.4 percent of ambulatory surgery centers we surveyed are doing so now, another 4 percent are thinking about adding weekend surgeries.