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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > January, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 1

How We Made Part-time Staffing Work

Moving to this model helps control payroll expenses in the face of diminishing reimbursements. Plus, 2006 salary survey results.

Donald Cook, MBA

Staffing your facility is a tricky task. On the one hand, you can't run the facility without enough people to do the job. On the other hand, it's your biggest cost item. Or, as one administrator more succinctly reported in Outpatient Surgery's fourth annual salary survey, staff are a necessary evil: "This is a unique setting in which nurses are a necessity, and are viewed as a huge expense."

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