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1 week ago | 
sofmag.com | Robert Kurtz |Susan Katz Keating
by Robert M. KurtzExcerpted from Mercenaries, Gunslingers, and Outlaws: Two Years as a Security Contractor in Iraq. Whoever set up the last IED that directly targeted my vehicle showed a little more ingenuity than usual. We were somewhere just outside of Bagdad; all the convoys seem to run together after a while especially when you’re the last vehicle.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
napavalleyregister.com | Robert Kurtz
Thankfulness can be more than social nicety or pious religious practice. I recommend a quick search online for credible evidence of ways gratitude impacts physical and mental health. This year, though — especially this month — could our Thanksgiving be a unifying celebration? Could gratitude draw us together in our shared humanity? If so, it would be on purpose — certainly neither automatic nor by accident.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ascfocus.org | Robert Kurtz
Use strategies that can transform your center’s performanceBY ROBERT KURTZ | NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2024If Quincy Medical Group (QMG) Surgery Center in Quincy, Illinois, were to close, its patients could be forced to travel 100 miles to receive the surgical services they need, says Michelle Frazier, executive director of revenue cycle management for QMG.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ascfocus.org | Robert Kurtz
COVER STORYDevelop a list targeted to your facilityBY ROBERT KURTZ | NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2024Key performance indicators (KPI) are often associated with the operational and financial components of an ASC, says Courtney Byl, RN, nurse manager for Orbis Vascular in Houston, Texas. While those KPIs are important to measuring the success of a center, she says, another type of metric is just as crucial.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
napavalleyregister.com | Robert Kurtz
In second grade, at our school’s 1969 carnival, with a lucky pingpong ball throw, I won a shiny, light blue peace symbol necklace. Oh, I felt so hip looking like my long-haired heroes. “Peace, baby.” I wasn’t sure what that meant, but it sounded pretty cool. What is peace? A lot, actually.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
ascfocus.org | Robert Kurtz
Strategies to stay on top of credentialing and privilegingBY ROBERT KURTZ | OCTOBER 2024Keeping up with credentialing and privileging is far preferable to the alternative, says Kris Kilgore, RN, executive director of Surgical Care Center of Michigan in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “Once you start falling behind, it becomes difficult to catch up—and you are potentially playing with fire. CMS [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] and other surveyors can come through your door at any time.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
ascfocus.org | Robert Kurtz
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
ascfocus.org | Robert Kurtz
What it will take to achieve this status in your ASCBY ROBERT KURTZ | SEPTEMBER 2024As chief executive officer of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) University Ambulatory Surgery Center in San Diego, California, Shelley Hargraves, RN, places a high priority on her ASC being a high-reliability organization (HRO). “We are directly responsible for the safety of every patient that puts their life in our hands.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
ascfocus.org | Robert Kurtz
COVER STORYA look at ASC joint ventures over the yearsBY ROBERT KURTZ | SEPTEMBER 2024ASC joint ventures are not a new concept. What is new is the level of interest from external parties in ASC joint ventures, says Gregory DeConciliis, CASC, administrator of Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites (BOSS) in Waltham, Massachusetts. “There was a time when ASCs were largely under the radar,” says DeConciliis, who serves as president of the Massachusetts Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (MAASC).
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
napavalleyregister.com | Robert Kurtz
What do you fear? There are many scary things. If you run out, social media is quite a resource for more to be afraid of. Routinely, we are told we face either the end of our democracy or conversion of our republic to socialism or communism. We are told we must choose between loss of reproductive rights or 2nd Amendment rights.
