Surgery on a Sunday?
Ambulatory Safety Monitor, October 7, 2004
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In a bid to ease overcrowding and operation costs-while at the same time competing with the growing ambulatory surgical market-some hospitals are now entertaining the idea of breaking out of the Monday-to-Friday routine for performing surgery.
According to Aging & Elder Health Week, acute-care facilities like Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia are expanding hours in various departments-leading to procedures like Caesarean sections, orthopedic and plastic surgery, and treatments for cardiology and urology on weekends.
"Hospitals struggling to get control of costs can't afford to have a huge portion of the physical plant lying idle for two days out of seven," Robert V. Reece, senior vice president of Cambridge Research Institute in Massachusetts, told Aging & Elder Health Week.
While weekend surgery is certainly a long way from being standard operating procedure for community hospitals or the ASCs currently drawing patients away from those traditional facilities, a survey distributed to doctors at Lankenau found that roughly a third would be willing to work non-traditional hours, like weekend surgical shifts.
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