July 22, 2025- Repertoire Magazine asked Nina Goins, the newly appointed Executive Director of ASCQC, to discuss the organization’s 2025 priorities, including the launch of the ASC Safety & Quality Assessment and its ongoing efforts to empower surgery centers through benchmarking, education, and practical tools for improvement.
One of the ASCQC’s top priorities for 2025 is the rollout of their new ASC Safety & Quality Assessment. This initiative invites ASCs to submit data on critical areas such as patient safety, patient experience, admissions and transfers, infection prevention and control, medication management and governance. The goal is to help ASCs benchmark themselves against essential attributes that define a safe, high-quality ambulatory surgical care environment, Goins said.
The assessment period ran from early February through mid-March, with more than 400 surgery centers participating. “We are now in the process of developing benchmarking reports for participants,” Goins said. Each center will receive a personalized report featuring both individual results and aggregate findings from all participating ASCs.
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