‘The way medicine is practiced these days’: Outpatient surgery centers keep growing as patients seek same-day care
“The data has proven that outpatient surgery) is just as safe and actually safer,” Jodie White, administrative director of OrthoSouth’s ambulatory surgery center division, said. (The Daily Memphian file)
When Jodie White started working in Memphis’s outpatient surgical center industry nearly three decades ago, she and her colleagues couldn’t have imagined the procedures they do now.
But now White, administrative director of OrthoSouth’s ambulatory surgery center division, said things are much busier.
Between OrthoSouth’s two centers in Germantown and Southaven, staff average up to 1,250 cases a month — 800 to 1,000 in Germantown and 200 to 250 a month in Southaven, OrthoSouth officials said.
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