Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

Published results showed patients who underwent minor hand surgeries under wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet experienced low infection rates and high satisfaction when performed in a ...

Ambulatory Surgery Centers, also known as ASCs, are freestanding healthcare facilities focused on providing outpatient surgical care. Outpatient surgery offers significant benefits over inpatient ...

Using a new index, hospital leaders who decide which procedures are offered by their organization can track how their choices affect patient access, according to findings published in Health Affairs ...

A plan to phase out a list of procedures that can be performed only on an inpatient basis has major implications for skilled nursing coverage post-surgery, a major aging services advocacy group is ...

“This procedure is a miracle,” said Larry McClurg, a Centerville resident and the 501st patient to have the surgery at McKay-Dee Hospital in October. McClurg went to Intermountain Layton Hospital ...