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42 Register Today for the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, October 24-26--Call 1-800-417-2035 100 ASC Benchmarks & Statistics to Know (continued from page 1) 3. Staff hours per case at ASCs is 12.8 hours. 4. Administrative hours per case is four hours. 5. Nurse hours per case in one- to two-OR centers is 5.2 hours. 6. Administrative hours at one- to two-OR centers is 3.8 hours. 7. Nurse hours at ASCs with three- to four-ORs is 6.3 hours. 8. Administrative hours at ASCs with three- to four-ORs is 4.1 hours. 9. ASCOA surgery centers have a per room goal of 10 cases per day to encourage compressed schedules.2 10. GI and pain-driven centers with less than five clinical hours would have a total of around eight staff hours per case. 11. ASCOA centers with more complicated cases such as orthopedics and spine would have clinical hour benchmarks around seven to eight hours per case and total staff hours around 10 to 12 hours per case. 12. Average room turnover time goal is seven to 10 minutes at ASCOA surgery centers, depending on the case mix. 13. 53 percent of ambulatory surgery centers maintain paper records and 23 percent track their supply chain on spreadsheets.3 14. Typical surgery centers have 19 cases per day.4 15. 74 percent of the cases are performed by the top five physicians at the ASC. 16. ASCs have of three surgical cases per operating room per day. 17. Total operating expenses per OR is $1.2 million. 18. Employee salary and wages per operating room is $421,820. 19. Medical and surgical expenses per OR are $375.37. 20. General and administrative expenses per OR are $259.38. 21. Total cases per center is 4,714 per year. 22. Average number of non-surgical cases per year is 1,146. 23. 765 cases are performed per operating room annually, with 4.6 cases per day. 24. ASC procedure rooms see around 1,144 non-surgical cases per room annually, with 4.6 procedures per day. 25. The top five physicians performed 54 percent of the ASC's case volume. 26. Surgery centers with more than four operating rooms performed 24 cases per day, while those with one to two operating rooms performed 12 cases per day. 27. Surgery centers with one to two operating rooms had the highest annual surgical case rate per operating room, at 782, while those with more than four operating rooms hosted 744 cases annually per operating room. 28. Non-surgical case volume per year at facilities with one to two operating rooms is 1,017 cases per procedure room.