Nina Goins, executive director of the ASC Quality Collaboration (ASCQC), joined the HST Pathways podcast This Week in Surgery Centers for a conversation on what separates surgery centers that treat quality data as a strategic asset from those that treat it as a reporting obligation — and what that difference looks like in practice.
Goins walks through the quality metrics she watches most closely as early indicators of deeper operational issues, explains how national benchmarking data can extend well beyond quality committee meetings into payer conversations and growth planning, and makes the case for embedding quality improvement into everyday ASC operations rather than treating it as a periodic exercise.
The episode also spotlights the ASCQC’s ASC Safety & Quality Assessment, open now through June 15. The free, 20-minute self-assessment covers governance, quality improvement, infection prevention, and patient experience, and provides each participating center with a confidential benchmarking report against national data. Watch below.