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40 10 New Surgery Centers in September 2015 By Laura Dyrda Use promo code: ASCFREE at check out and receive FREE GROUND SHIPPING on your next order of $50 or more.* *Promo code valid for (1) one use only. Offer expires 12/31/15. Contact eSutures.com at 888-416-2409 for pricing and availability. ASC Quality Report: Q2 2015 By Anuja Vaidya e ASC Quality Collaboration has published data from its quality report for the second quarter of 2015. Here are eight key findings: • Rate of patient falls in the ASC — 0.130 per 1000 admissions • Rate of patient burns — 0.017 per 1000 admissions • Rate of hospital transfers/admissions — 1.022 per 1000 admissions • Rate of wrong site, side, patient, procedure, implant events — 0.030 per 1000 admissions • Percentage of ASC admissions with antibiotics ordered who re- ceived antibiotics on time — 99 percent • Percentage of ASC admissions with appropriate surgical site hair removal — 97 percent • Percentage of eligible ASC patients with normothermia — 98 per- cent • Percent of ASC cataract surgery patients with unplanned anterior vitrectomy — 0.69 percent e second quarter data was collected from 1,460 ASCs — 937 mul- tispecialty ASCs and 523 single specialty ASCs. n H ere are 10 ambulatory surgery centers opened and announced in September. Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital opened a new facility that includes an ASC. ProMedica in Toledo, Ohio, is still work- ing on a new surgery center expected to complete in the spring. Carolinas HealthCare Systems Blue Ridge, based in Morganton, N.C., broke ground on a new surgery center in part of a two-year project. Hauser-Ross Eye Institute in Sycamore, Ill., plans to open its own surgery center in October. Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Ed- inburgh, Texas, opened a new outpatient surgery center with eight operating rooms and 80 beds. Bristol, Pa.-based Lower Bucks Hospi- tal plans to reopen an ASC on the hospital's campus that closed its doors several years ago. e Empire State Ambulatory Surgery Center, a joint venture between New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America and 15 physicians, opened in New York. Tricity Pain Associates broke ground on a new facility in New Braunfels, Texas, that will include an ASC that's expected to open in early 2016. Orland Park, Ill.-based Preferred Surgi- center opened as a multispecialty, 23-hour ASC for pain management, cardiology, orthopedics, podiatry, urology and plastic surgery procedures. Cleveland Clinic Florida plans to expand its Weston location to include an ASC. n Physician Frustrations: 6 Biggest Stress Points By Anuja Vaidya H ere are six of the biggest frustrations that phy- sicians face, according to Physicians Practice's 2015 Great American Physician Survey. • Too much third-party interference — 39.9 percent • Declining ability to practice independently — 13.8 percent • e stress is too high — 13 percent • e compensation is not high enough — 9.3 per- cent • e hours are too long — 7 percent • It is simply not as personally/professionally re- warding as I thought it would be — 6.5 percent e survey includes responses from 1,001 physicians. n