Geri Eaves, BSN, RN, CASC, CNOR CEO/Administrator, Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee Surgery Center
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This is Gracelyn Keller at the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, and we are recording live at the 31st Annual Business and Operations of ASCs. I'm currently joined by Jerry Eves, who is the CEO and Administrator of Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee Surgery Center. Jerry, thanks for being here. To start us off, I'll have you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit more about your work in the ASC space. Absolutely. Thank
you. And as you said, I am Jerry Eaves. I'm the administrator and CEO at the Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee in Franklin, Tennessee. We are a 6OR surgery center. We do orthopedics and spine. We opened right in the middle of COVID. So the facility opened five years ago in March of 2020. And I myself have been in health care in the ambulatory setting over 20 years. And I did start my career out as a nurse. But I love working on the administrative side and working with operations. And I look forward to our podcast.
Wonderful. Well, let's start our conversation with the ASC market, because in the U.S., this is projected to reach $60.8 billion by 2030, and it continues to experience strong year-over-year growth. So from your perspective, what are the most significant trends in market forces driving this expansion, and how should ASC leaders be preparing today?
Absolutely. Great question. So one of the things that we're wanting to see is large shifts in cases to the ASC outpatient setting. We're going to see minimally invasive techniques that include robotics and AI. All of those are increasing. This is going to help us perform more complex cases in the outpatient setting. Cost and managed care contracts are going to push more cases to the ASCs along with patient performance. Quality metrics are going to be a huge thing that we're going to focus on. ASC leaders should prepare.
Who is Jerry Eaves and what is the background of the Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee ASC?
They should look at their roadmap ahead and look at your margins, analyze your case mix, profitability margins. Make sure you're looking at all of that because it's going to be huge with some of the forces that we're dealing with.
And from AI and robotic surgeries to advanced EHR systems, technology remains both a make or break factor and a critical driver of ASC operations at scale. So how do you see deeper tech integration shaping the way ASCs deliver care and manage their business over the next few years? Absolutely.
So technology is going to redefine what scalable means when we talk about AI and robotic surgeries. We used to just need case mix and efficiency. Now we need data integration, automation and precision. So a lot of that is just going to be key. Data driven decision making is going to also be one of those things that we're looking at. We're connecting clinical, financial, and operational data, which allows us to have real-time visibility into case cost, surgeon utilization, and quality metrics. We're also able to forecast cancellations, optimize block scheduling, flag high-risk patients easier. There's so much going into technology and how we drive our business going forward.
And follow up to that, is there one specific technology or innovation that you would pinpoint as a standout to being especially transformative?
I think robotics is going to be one that I would say is key. Having a personal experience with it myself, it helps with recovery, post-op, pain control. There's just so many things. It's efficiency in the OR. There's just so many things that I think it's driving. So I'd say robotics.
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