Janet L. Carlson

a place to do cases.

Oftentimes, independent surgeons don't have guaranteed block time in a health system if they're not employed with the health system.

And so ASCs are the perfect solution for those surgeons who are looking for a home and looking for guaranteed block time.

I think that we've covered most of the topics.

I could talk for a very long time about ASCs.

There's so much going on.

It's such a dynamic space.

I think another topic that is worth exploring, possibly another conversation is the partnership with anesthesia and how to optimize a patient preoperatively.

And so that way,

we can, with an elective procedure, we can plan to have a patient taken care of.

And since it's elective, there's no rush, but we can optimize the patient for a really great experience on the day of surgery, but also very importantly, post-operatively in their recovery journey.

So that is something that I'm following closely is how to best

provide care to these patients and make sure they have excellent outcomes because we're now required to collect patient satisfaction scores.

And we'd like to make sure that the patients are having a wonderful experience.

They're satisfied.

Is there anything we could do to improve their experience or anything we could have done better?

That feedback is very valuable, but that's a new requirement for 2025 for ASCs is the requirement to collect and report your patient satisfactions.

So ASCs routinely have very, very high patient satisfaction scores.

And I think this is an opportunity for the ASC community to show off those numbers and the experience that we provide.

Yeah, they're an integral part of the whole