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13 ASC MANAGEMENT 'Newsweek' ranks America's Best ASCs in 25 states By Angie Sterwart N ewsweek partnered with global research firm Statista to identify the 400 best ASCs in 25 states with the most facilities. e 2021 ranking took into account ASC quality data, centers' handling of the CO- VID-19 crisis, and surveys of ASC nurses, therapists, physicians, surgeons and adminis- trators. e number of ASCs awarded varied by state. California was represented with 80 ASCs, and Mississippi was on the other end of the spectrum with just three. William Prentice, CEO of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, commented on the ranking to Becker's ASC Review: "ASCA is pleased that Newsweek is recog- nizing that ASCs provide exemplary care to patients across the country because that has been true for a very long time. Read- ers should also know that there are several nationally recognized accrediting bodies that independently certify the quality of care provided by thousands of ASCs. For this reason, we strongly recommend that patients considering surgery in an ASC look at the publicly available quality data that Medicare makes available online, as well as the accredi- tations awarded to the surgery center." e No. 1 ASC in 25 states: Arizona Mayo Clinic-Building Scottsdale California Sutter Health-Surgery Center Palo Alto Colorado Littleton Day Surgery Center Florida Surgical Care Affiliates-Boca Raton Outpa- tient Surgery & Laser Center Georgia Emory Healthcare-Emory Clinic at 1365 Clion Rd (Atlanta) Illinois Surgical Care Affiliates-Northwest Surgicare (Arlington Heights) Indiana Unity Surgical Center (Lafayette) Kansas KU MedWest Outpatient Surgery Center (Shawnee) Louisiana Lake Surgery Center (Baton Rouge) Maryland Johns Hopkins Endoscopy & Surgery Center (Columbia) Michigan TruVista Surgery Center (Troy) Minnesota Surgical Care Affiliates-Maplewood Surgery Center (Maplewood) Mississippi St. Dominic Ambulatory Surgery Center (Jackson) Missouri e Surgical Center at Columbia Orthopae- dic Group New Jersey Mercer County Surgery Center (Lawrenceville) New York Gramercy Surgery Center-New York (New York City) North Carolina Capital City Surgery Center (Raleigh) Ohio Cleveland Clinic-Wooster Milltown Spe- cialty and Surgery Center Oregon Surgical Care Affiliates-Northbank Surgical Center (Salem) Pennsylvania Wills Surgery Center of Northeast (Philadel- phia) South Carolina Midlands Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery- Surgery Center (Columbia) Tennessee Methodist Germantown Surgery Center Texas Surgical Care Affiliates-Texas Health Surgery Center Craig Ranch (McKinney) Washington Proliance Surgeons-Seattle Surgery Center Wisconsin e Surgery Center Franklin n 5 employees of U of New Mexico outpatient surgery center test positive for COVID-19 By Eric Oliver F ive employees at Albuquerque, N.M.-based UNM Health's outpatient surgery center recently tested positive for COVID-19, local news affiliate KRQE reported Oct. 21. What you should know: 1. Five employees at the surgery center attended a co-worker's wedding where masks were optional. 2. UNM Health confirmed the cases and said the employees contracted the virus off the job. The health system said to KRQE, "We cannot control what our employees do outside of work and that the spread was community-related not the result of hospital exposure." 3. The hospital doesn't believe patients were put at risk. n