WEDNESDAY, MAY 9
8:00am–6:00pm – PRE-MEETING WORKSHOP – Wednesday
CASC Review Course
Interested in becoming CASC (Certified Administrator Surgery Center) certified? If you are planning to take the CASC exam or just want a review of the key areas of ASC administration, this course is for you. Designed for those with ASC experience, this course will review key topics in the five content areas of the CASC exam: regulatory and legal issues, finance, delivery of patient care, quality management and human resources. Each content area will be covered by expert faculty.
Member $210, Nonmember $325
1:00pm–5:00pm – PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS – Wednesday
Essentials of the Life Safety Code
Understanding physical plant require¬ments and standards is essential for complying with the accreditation and certification requirements your ASC needs to meet. Participate in this workshop to learn about the key elements of the Na¬tional Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) codes and standards for construction, protection and occupancy that will help minimize danger in your facility during fire and non-fire emergencies.
Member $110, Nonmember $215
Preparing for AAAHC Accreditation
Led by experienced surveyors from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), this session will review AAAHC standards, provide compliance tips and help you to prepare for an accreditation survey. While designed for ASCs undergoing accreditation for the first time, it can also serve as a comprehensive review for ASCs preparing for re-accreditation.
Member $110, Nonmember $215
Preparing for Joint Commission Accreditation
This overview of the Joint Commission’s accreditation standards will provide you with the tools you need to ensure continuous compliance and operational improvement at your ASC. Learn about recent changes in the standards and the keys to success for the on-site accreditation survey.
Member $110, Nonmember $215
Using ASCA’s Benchmarking Tools
(Sponsored by MD Buyline)
Learn how to use ASCA’s benchmarking tools to make lasting improvements at your ASC. Industry experts will discuss how your ASC can use ASCA’s Outcomes Monitoring Project (OMP) and Financial Benchmarking Survey to meet accreditation and regulatory requirements, improve the quality of care you provide, increase efficiency at your ASC, increase profits and more. Find out how to use the clinical, operational and financial data the two survey reports provide, how to conduct quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) studies in your facility, how to share data with your staff and how to present your reports to your Board. The last segment of the program will be devoted to responding to questions from participants.
Member $0, Nonmember $215 (Please note: ASCA members who register for the full conference can participate in this session for free.)
THURSDAY, MAY 10
7:00am–8:00am – Specialty-Specific Networking Sessions – Thursday
This is a great opportunity for you to meet and exchange ideas with your colleagues who work in ASCs that serve the same specialties as your ASC. During these facilitated sessions, participants will share real-life experiences and practical advice, then brainstorm together to find new approaches to the unique challenges you face. Offered during breakfast in the Exhibit Hall, these sessions are a valuable way to meet your colleagues at the very start of the conference. You’ll be able to continue your conversation over the next 3 days! • GI• Ortho/Pain• Multi-Specialty• Ophthalmology
8:00am–10:00am – GENERAL SESSION – Thursday
ASCA’s Annual Membership Meeting
Participate in this annual meeting of ASCA’s membership to find out more about the new programs and services ASCA is offering, our expanded government affairs agenda, our new Web-based information and networking tools and our plans for the year ahead. Ask questions and share your ideas about new directions that you would like to see ASCA take.
Medicare’s New ASC Quality Reporting Requirements—CMS Perspective
ASCs must begin reporting quality data in 2012 or face reductions in their Medicare payments down the line. Medicare is expected to issue expanded guidance on its quality reporting program shortly before ASCA 2012 convenes. Attend this session to make certain you have the most complete and up-to-date information available to ensure your ASC’s success in this important new Medicare program.
You and your ASC need to act now to prepare to meet Medicare’s requirements. Find out what quality measures you need to report, when you need to report them, how to submit your reports, and what will happen with the data you report.
11:00am–12:00pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Thursday
Strategic Partnership Between ASCs and State Government: An Examination of a Medicaid Pilot Program in Washington State
Increased Medicaid spending in a lagging economy has created difficult health care funding decisions for state governments. Public–private partnerships with states and the ASC industry are one strategy worth examining. Washington State has created a demonstration project in Medicaid and Workers’ Compensation, achieved through cooperation between the state legislature and the Washington Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (WASCA). State Representative Joe Schmick, ranking Republican on the House Health Care and Wellness Committee, and Proliance Surgeons Chief Executive Officer and WASCA Board Member Dave Fitzgerald will discuss their new and exciting strategic partnership.
Sterilization—Immediate Use (Short Cycle)
Ongoing efforts to prevent infections while controlling costs can make decisions affecting your sterilization processes more important than ever. Learn what procedures and policies you can put in place to limit immediate use sterilization.
An Advanced Look at Ratios and Benchmarking
Using ratios and benchmarking, an ASC can identify opportunities to improve both its operational and financial performance. This session will provide an opportunity to learn how to apply and profit from the benchmarking information available to your ASC.
Medicare Inspections—Are You Ready?
In recent years, Medicare surveyors have been arriving without notice at ASCs from coast to coast. Listen to actual accounts of recent surveys, learn what is being examined and identify ways to make sure your ASC is prepared when Medicare’s surveyors arrive. This session is a must for all ASC administrators, nurses and medical directors.
Generation Relationship Roulette
Don’t mishandle generational operations issues by leaving them to chance. Since most families include at least two generations, most people know how to relate and communicate with people from other generations to accomplish goals and make decisions in their personal lives. Discover how to carry these skills into the workplace. Obtain a better understanding regarding each generational group and their anchors, triggers and motivations regarding work.
The Joint Commission Tackles Wrong Site Surgery—Tools You Can Use Now
Putting “Robust Process ImprovementTM” (RPI) methods to work, The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has created a Web-based Targeted Solutions ToolTM aimed at reducing wrong site/side/patient surgery. Learn how the ASCs and other organizations that participated in developing the tool reduced their number of surgical cases with risks by 51% in the operating room, 46% in the scheduling process and 63% in the pre-op area. Find out how Joint Commission-accredited ASCs can use the tool’s six-part process to target their particular case mix to identify risk areas in their ASC. This session will include examples of a “chart wizard” that produces graphs to illustrate data specific to each ASC’s findings.
2:00pm–2:50pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Thursday
Partnering with Hospitals—How to Make Joint Ventures Work
There are ways to ensure that hospital—ASC partnerships succeed. Learn about the factors that are important to agree on as these relationships are established and key points that should remain a focus as the joint venture proceeds.
Sedation by Non-Anesthesia Providers
Sedation by non-anesthesia providers is a common occurrence in many settings across the US. Aspects to consider for privileging and providing such sedation in your ASC will be discussed.
How to Decide Which Procedures to Add and Drop
Health care changes are moving more procedures into the ASC environment, but some can cost you significantly more for the supplies and staffing resources you need to provide. How do you decide if adding a new procedure makes sense for your ASC? Come find out what other ASCs are doing about adding new pro¬cedures and dropping some they have performed in the past.
Postoperative Pain Management: Beyond the Regional Block
Postoperative pain management can influence how satisfied your patients are with the care they receive in your center. Regional blocks can help but are not the total solution. Explore other options for pain control and helping your patients understand how to minimize pain and recover comfortably at home.
Data Security—Maintaining Patient Records and Complying with HIPAA
Protecting patient privacy has always been a priority in ASCs, but federal requirements set new standards for managing protected health information and increases the potential for legal liability in your ASC. Find out what your ASC needs to be doing now to comply and make certain that your patient data reports remain secure.
Resyndication—Getting the Most Out of Your ASC Valuation
How much are your shares worth? What do you need to know to make certain that the fair market value assigned to your ASC is accurate? How do you use that information to ensure the immediate and long-term success of your ASC?
3:00pm–3:50pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Thursday
RAC Rebuttals: ASCs Fight Back
Review a history of the four Recovery Audit Contractors’ (RAC) geographical regions and their coding concerns from an ASC perspective: the postoperative period, cataract reporting (documentation issues), pain management (medical necessity) and duplicate billing. This presentation will include a discussion of real-time cases, rebuttals and outcomes.
What Statistics Your ASC Should Review Each Day, Week and Month and What to Do with the Information They Provide
Be sure you are collecting and examining the statistics you need to know and prepare to put that information to work to ensure topnotch performance in all areas at your ASC.
How to Maximize the Value of Your Patient Survey
You’ve already invested time and money in your patient satisfaction survey. Now, learn how to get the most from your results. What areas of your ASC’s operations need to be improved? Which of those will have the most impact on your overall patient satisfaction scores? How do you get your staff engaged? Are there ways to increase return rates? Get the answers you need to these questions and many more.
Pediatrics—Secrets to Success?
Explore the criteria and safety measures you must implement to serve pediatric patients in your ASC. Review best practices and determine how small is too small for your ASC to be able to serve these patients.
How to Keep Pain Management Cases in Your Center
Reimbursement for pain procedures is changing, and new procedures in this area are evolving. Come discuss ways to change the pain services your ASC offers and how to keep these services at your ASC.
Complying With Today’s Reporting Requirements: Will Paper Documentation Be Enough?
As ASCs are required to report increasing amounts of information about their operations, the documentation supporting that information becomes more important than ever before. This session will review new options and best practices in this area.
4:00pm–5:00pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Thursday
ASC Equity Transactions
Learn about the three types of equity transactions involving ASCs: sales of equity to new physicians who will be joining the ASC, buybacks (i.e., redemptions) of physicians who are no longer using the ASC as an active extension of their practice, and sales of large equity portions of the ASC to ASC management companies or health systems. Leave with a more in-depth understanding of the key business and legal issues impacting these three types of transactions.
Government Affairs Update
This session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about ASCA’s legislative and regulatory agenda, along with how recent legislative and regulatory changes taking place in Washington may affect their ASC. In addition, ASCA members will learn how they can become more involved in ASCA advocacy efforts.
Creating a Patient Falls Prevention Program
As ASCs continue to treat an aging population, prevention of patient falls is a key part of your treatment plan. Examine effective ways to design and implement a comprehensive patient falls prevention program in your ASC.
Financial Benchmarking—A Walkthrough on How and What to Do With the Results
Financial benchmarking can help you improve your operations and your bottom line. Find out how to make the most of this process in your ASC.
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Prevention: An Update
DVT and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) are major concerns related to morbidity and mortality in your patients. Certain subsets of patients will be considered low-, intermediate- and high-risk for developing DVT and PE. An update on the prophylaxis and potential treatment of DVT will be provided.
Managing Controlled Substances in Your ASC
Is double lock or triple lock better? When is “more” better and “enough” enough? Attend this session to improve the systems you use to manage controlled substances in your ASC and get tips on the best ways to streamline your processes without compromising the safety or security of your supplies. Get answers to the questions that concern you most.
FRIDAY, MAY 11
8:00am–10:00am – GENERAL SESSION – Friday
ASC MARKET OVERVIEW
Andrew Hayek Surgical Care Affiliates
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Macro trends in the industry
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Implications of health care reform
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What we see for the future
A VIEW FROM THE CORNER OFFICE
Join the chief executive officers from some of the ASC industry’s management companies as they examine recent developments and future trends in the US health care marketplace and explore ways for ASCs to remain on top. Get the information you need to make sound business decisions today that will help ensure that your ASC is positioned for the future.
“MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON” CO-PILOT JEFF SKILES
When an emergency arises in your ASC, you need to think clearly, act fast and trust in your team and the system that trained you to respond when a crisis occurs. Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot of the US Airways flight that made an emergency landing on New York City’s Hudson River in 2009 after both of its engines failed, knows what that takes. Listen as he recounts the events of that day and shares information about the training and preparation that enabled Captain Chesley Sullenberger and him to land that plane safely, while protecting the lives of all 155 people on board. Find out how two pilots who met for the first time only three days earlier used their training, experience and leadership skills to work as a team to maintain control during the crisis.
“No terrible thoughts went through my head, none at all,” says Skiles. “I didn’t worry that I might not live through this—and no pilot would. Unless the situation is completely out of your control, there’s always something you can do.”
11:00am–12:00pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Friday
Medicare’s Quality Reporting Program in Practice: A Panel Discussion
ASCs will soon face the challenge of successfully reporting quality data to Medicare. A panel of experts will discuss the practical considerations of implementing a quality reporting program and answer attendees’ questions. Learn tips on establishing a program with ease, ways to use the collected data to improve performance, how to prepare for your data to be made public, and what you should be doing now to prepare for the long term future of quality reporting.
What You Can Do for Infection Prevention Every Day
Explore the most effective techniques for preventing infections in your ASC and ensure compliance from all of the staff and physicians who work in your facility each day.
Prevent Fraud and Abuse in Your ASC
As ASCs look for new opportunities to expand their operations, understanding the Stark Law and anti-kickback regulations is critical to avoiding legal issues. This session will highlight current issues related to the anti-kickback rules.
Should I Outsource My Coding? Look Before You Leap
Before outsourcing coding, your ASC must assess its needs, preferences and goals. Learn the important questions to ask yourself and your potential vendors in order to determine the most appropriate partnership. Learn tips and best practices of the decision-making process to include key “must haves” from any coding company.
Pulmonary Aspiration—Avoidance and Management?
Aspiration of gastric contents is a dreaded complication of anesthesia and surgery. Clinical scenarios surrounding such aspiration events can be varied. Current thought on the diagnosis and management of this potential complication of surgery will be discussed.
How to Develop a QAPI Program
Medicare requires ASCs to have a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program in place. Your QAPI program is essential to the success of your center. Review the required elements of a QAPI plan and explore ways to implement and maintain an effective and efficient program in your ASC.
2:00pm–2:50pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Friday
Re-Evaluating Your Revenue Cycle
Are you collecting payments quickly enough? Is your outstanding AR reasonable? This session will highlight the things that every business manager needs to know to manage cash flow and their ASC’s revenue cycle.
Increase the Value of Your Managed Care Contracts
Are you getting the most out of your managed care contract? How do you know? Make sure that you understand what is involved, the ways to ensure that you are getting what you signed up for and how to make the most of the managed care contracts that your ASC has signed.
Preparing for and Passing an OSHA Survey
In 2011, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began surveying ASCs in the southeastern US for compliance with the sharps safety law and other OSHA regulations. Using information from those surveys, an Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) ASC task force developed a checklist that identifies the policies and procedures, plans and other items an OSHA surveyor is likely to request. Using that checklist, discuss how to prepare for an OSHA survey. Participants will receive a sample Sharps Safety Plan that addresses the requirements of the law.
Saying “No” to New Supply Requests
Get the tools, arguments and resources you need to convince your physicians to use the supplies you want them to use. The session will provide techniques you can use to document expenses in your ASC and later use to work with your physicians to change their practice patterns.
3:00pm–3:50pm – BREAKOUT SESSION – Friday
Coronary Stents: Dos and Don’ts
A major concern after successful coronary artery stent placement is the potential for acute stent thrombosis, with subsequent myocardial infarction and death. Premature discontinuation of dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with coronary artery stents who are scheduled to undergo surgery increases the risk of all three. The latest recommendations on perioperative medication management will be discussed.
External Coding Audit Processes: Establishing Protocols
Whether your ASC is in the process of establishing, or has already established, an external coding audit program, this is a presentation not to be missed. Your company audit protocol should define the purpose of the audit, frequency of review and sample size. Selecting a credible auditing company, as well as establishing accuracy goals and problem resolution when your goals aren’t met, will also be discussed.
Deep Sedation—Update on New Guidelines
The continuum of sedation and tools to im¬prove patient safety continues to be a topic of discussion nationwide. Recent guidelines regarding monitoring during deep sedation cases will be discussed.
Reducing Drug Costs While Increasing Compliance
Examine proven techniques for reducing your expenses by reducing your formulary. Find ways to limit the amount of medications you keep on hand, and how you use those supplies to increase your compliance and reduce medication errors. This is a not-to-miss program for those who could use help keeping their medication costs under control.
OSHA’s Sharps Safety: Do You Comply?
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently stepped up its inspection program involving ASCs. Learn what is needed and what is new about sharps safety in your ASC. Be prepared if an OSHA inspector arrives at your door.
Sleep Apnea: Obesity and Obstructive: Is There a Limit for Ambulatory Surgery?
In the perioperative period, both pediatric and adult patients with sleep apnea, even if asymptomatic, present special challenges that must be systematically addressed to minimize the risk of peri¬operative morbidity or mortality. Current thoughts on screening and management of sleep apnea, and challenges to be con¬sidered when setting limits on the body mass index allowed for elective outpatient surgery, will be discussed.
4:00pm–5:00pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Friday
Patient Selection: Streamlining the Process with Your Medical Director
To provide the most safe and efficient care possible to your patients, you need to partner with your medical director to develop screening processes that allow you to catch and address issues before the morning of surgery. Come learn how other ASCs are meeting this challenge and how to adapt their successful strategies to your ASC.
An Advanced Look at Financial Management and Analysis
Financial management is the process of analyzing information from financial reports, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing change. This session will provide advanced tips on how to scrutinize your financial data to distinguish information you can use to make important operational changes at your ASC.
Hiring and Firing Employees: Are You Following the Law?
When Donald Trump says “You’re fired!” the story is over, but inside your ASC, it is not always that easy. Come and learn about the laws involved in hiring and firing employees, the tools you need to do both and ways to protect your ASC in the process.
HIPAA and Your Vendors: Who Is Accountable?
Ever wonder what happens to the patient health information your vendors access via paper and/or electronic means? Simply because you outsource your transcription or coding does not mean your ASC facility isn’t accountable for breaches in protected health information. Learn to what extent the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule governs your contracts with contractors and subcontractors and the importance of executing a business associate agreement.
What You Need to Know to Keep Up with Your Medical Director’s Duties
At the same time that your medical director is making some of the most critical decisions needed inside your ASC each day, he or she is also helping your ASC’s staff and management teams provide the highest quality care, helping to set the direction for your facility and assisting your Board members with all that is required of them. Make sure that you are doing all that you can to help your medical director perform at his or her best.
Reprocessing Dos and Don’ts
When does reprocessing make sense and save your ASC money and when do the risks outweigh the savings?
SATURDAY, MAY 12
7:30am–8:30am – BREAKFAST PROBLEM SOLVING DISCUSSIONS – Saturday
Creating and Using a Safe Surgery Checklist
This interactive session will help you develop a safe surgery checklist that meets Medicare’s requirements and fine tune the checklist you are already using at your ASC. Share ideas and discuss the key areas you need to consider as you develop a safe sur¬gery checklist in your ASC, why you need to report your use of a checklist to Medicare, and how to submit your report.
Dealing with Bullying in the Workplace
How do you define bullying in the workplace and determine if it is taking place in your ASC? Come to this problem-solving session to discuss examples of bullying, how it can affect an individual and what to do if someone in your ASC believes they are being bullied.
How to Prepare Reports for Your Board
Board reports that are informative, easy to read and able to grab the attention of your board members are the key to a successful board meeting. Learn what other ASCs are doing and share your own best practices to help you give your board members what they need to oversee the governance of your ASC.
State of the States
Come learn about state legislative and regulatory developments and trends and share developments in your state with other ASCA members. ASCA Assistant Director of Government Affairs for State Policy Kara Marshall will lead the discussion.
8:45am–10:45am – GENERAL SESSION – Saturday
A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
US Representative Michael C. Burgess, MD
US Representative Michael Burgess, MD, (R-TX) will share his unique insights on current Congressional efforts to reform the health care system. Rep. Burgess’s perspective has been shaped by more than 30 years as a practicing obstetrician–gynecologist in North Texas, followed by his election to the US House of Representatives in 2002. In addition, during his years practicing medicine, Rep. Burgess founded and provided care in an ASC. He currently serves as the vice chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health and is the chairman of the Congressional Health Care Caucus.
TAME THE LIONS IN YOUR LIFE: DEALING WITH COMPLAINERS, BULLIES AND CURMUDGEONS
Connie Merritt, RN, BSN, PHN
Complainers, bullies, grumps, curmudgeons and passive-aggressives can tear people apart, decrease productivity and increase stress in your ASC. Attend this high-energy, highly informative session presented by a former intensive care nurse to learn how to manage these “lions” in your life. Find out how to create working relationships with even the most difficult personalities and eliminate the behavior that saps energy and strength from your team. Discover how to keep unmanaged conflicts, disagreements and out-of-control emotions from harming your important working and personal relationships. Merritt will give you the step-by-step tools and powerful approaches you need to react quickly to resolve personality discords, stop bullies in their tracks and find resolution in conflict. She will also help you handle hostility, halt poisoning complainers and get commitment and action from even your most non-communicative colleagues as she shares her insights into how to instill and sustain a confident, professional, can-do environment in your ASC.
11:00am–12:00pm – BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Saturday
Medicare Inspections—Are You Ready?
In recent years, Medicare surveyors have been arriving without notice at ASCs from coast to coast. Listen to actual accounts of recent surveys, learn what is being examined and identify ways to make sure your ASC is prepared when Medicare’s surveyors arrive. This session is a must for all ASC administrators, nurses and medical directors.
ICD-10—What Your Staff Should Know and Do Now
Although the US Department of Health & Human Services recently delayed the implementation timeline for ICD-10, your ASC can benefit from starting now to prepare for the day the new ICD-10 deadlines arrive. Learn what your staff will need to know to perform daily functions in your facility and what physicians should expect regarding detailing clinical documentation so that your ASC can generate a clean claim the first time. An overview of new documentation changes will be discussed for many specialties along with tips for getting physicians to document sooner rather than later.
Creating Effective Evaluations for Your Staff
Who dreads evaluation time more—you or your employees? Wouldn’t it be nice to have an effective evaluation tool designed specifically for your staff? Join us at this session, and together, we can create the evaluation experience you’ve always dreamed of.
How to Educate Your Board to Meet CMS Requirements
Over the past few years, Medicare has set new requirements for the orientation and education of your ASC’s Board members. Learn about the elements of an effective Board education program and review three ways to prepare your Board members to meet and exceed Medicare’s requirements.
Postoperative Nausea/Vomiting: Update on Prevention and Treatment
Nausea and vomiting during recovery can lead to delays in preparing a patient for discharge, a back-up of patients in the postoperative area and lags in the start of new cases. Review current best practices for preventing nausea and vomiting in your patients.
Jay Afrow, DMD MHA
The Joint Commission
Oak Brook Terrace, IL
Jan Allison, RN CHSP
Surgical Care Affiliates
Birmingham, AL
Kimberly C. Andry, BSRT CASC
Great Lakes Surgical Center, LLC
Southfield, MI
Jonathan Beal, JD
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Chicago, IL
Cristina Bentin, CCS-P CPC-H CMA
Coding Compliance Management, LLC
Baton Rouge, LA
Anita J. Bhatia, PhD MPH RYT
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Baltimore, MD
Terry A. Bohlke, CASC
National Surgical Hospitals
Atwater, CA
Beth Boynton, RN MS
Portsmouth, NH
Joni M. Brady, MSN RN CAPA CLC
INOVA Alexandria Hospital
Alexandria, VA
Danny Bundren, CPA JD
Symbion, Inc
Nashville, TN
Nancy Burden, RN
BayCare Health System
New Port Richey, FL
Lori Callahan, CASC
Algonquin Road Surgery Center
Lake In The Hills, IL
Stephen Campbell
Mavicor
Overland Park, KS
Arthur E. Casey, CASC
San Diego, CA
Karen Civali, RN
Allied World Assurance Company
Farmington, CT
Marcus Crider
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis
Nashville, TN
Meena Desai, MD
Nova Anesthesia Professionals, P.C.
Villanova, PA
Melody Dickerson, RN MSN
The Joint Commission
Villa Park, IL
Stephanie Ellis, RN CPC
Ellis Medical Consulting, Inc
Brentwood, TN
Paul Faraclas, MBA HCM
CTQ Solutions, LLC
Branford, CT
David G. Fitzgerald
Proliance Surgeons, Inc
Seattle, WA
Richard E. Francis, Jr.
Symbion, Inc
Nashville, TN
Ann Geier, MS RN CNOR CASC
Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America
Mount Pleasant, SC
John J. Goehle, MBA CPA CASC
Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies, LLC
Spencerport, NY
Barbara Gruendemann, PhD RN CNOR FAAN
G4 Productions
Dallas, TX
Steven A. Gunderson, DO CASC
Rockford Ambulatory Surgery Center
Rockford, IL
Carol Hiatt, RN LHRM CASC
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
Ocala, FL
Andrew P. Hayek
Surgical Care Affiliates
Deerfield, IL
Mary Hibdon, RN
Nueterra Healthcare
Leawood, KS
Christopher A. Holden
AmSurg Corp
Nashville, TN
Sandra Jones, CASC
ASD Management
Dade City, FL
Girish Joshi, MB BS MD FFARCSI
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Chris Kelly
AmSurg Corp
Nashville, TN
Bev Kirchner, BSN RN CNOR CASC
Genesee Associates
Highland Village, TX
Sue Klacik, BS CRCST ACE FCS
St. Elizabeth Health Center
Youngstown, OH
Brent W. Lambert, MD
Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America
Hanover, MA
Linda Lansing
Surgical Care Affiliates
Birmingham, AL
William E. Lindeman, AIA
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
Tucson, AZ
Marian Lowe
Strategic Health Care
Washington, DC
Kara J. Marshall
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Alexandria, VA
Reed Martin
Surgical Management Professionals, LLC
Sioux Falls, SD
Sarah Martin, MBA RN CASC
Meridian Surgical Partners
Brentwood, TN
Dawn Q. McLane, RN MSA CNOR CASC
Health Inventures
Broomfield, CO
Catherine A. Meredith, RN CASC
Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America (ASCOA)
Flinton, PA
Keith Metz, MD
Great Lakes Surgical Center, LLC
Southfield, MI
Steve Miller
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Alexandria, VA
Amy Mowles
Mowles Medical Practice Management, LLC
Edgewater, MD
Jessica Nantz
Outpatient Healthcare Strategies
Kingwood, TX
Lisa Rock
National Medical Billing Services
St. Louis, MO
Mary Ryan, RN CASC
Tri-State Surgery Center
Dubuque, IA
April K. Sackos, CASC
Meridian Surgical Partners
Brentwood, TN
Tom Scheidel
Scheidel & Associates
North Richland Hills, TX
Joseph Schmick
House of Representatives, Washington State
Olympia, WA
David M. Shapiro, MD CHC CHCQM CHPRM LHRM CASC
Tallahassee, FL
Julie Sifford, R.Ph.
McKinney, TX
Jerry Sokol, Esq
McDermott Will & Emery
Miami, FL
Deborah Spratt, MPA BSN RN CNOR NEA-BC CRCST CHL
Canandaigua VA Medical Center
Canandaigua, NY
Debra Stinchcomb, RN BSN CASC
Progressive Surgical Solutions, LLC
Fayetteville, AR
Emily Studebaker, JD
Garvey Schubert Barer
Seattle, WA
BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Gina A. Throneberry, MBA RN CNOR ONC CASC
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Alexandria, VA
Cathy D. Trame, RN MS CNS BC
Kettering Physician Network
Miamisburg, OH
Sharon Van Wicklin, MSN, RN, CNOR/CRNFA, CPSN, PLNC
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
Denver, CO
Michael T. Walsh, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN
Bill Wilcox
United Surgical Partners International
Addison, TX
Marcus Williamson
Symbion, Inc
Nashville, TN