Tag: surgery

August is National ASC Month

Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) serve the Healthcare market by providing a convenient alternative to the hospital for high-quality, cost-efficient surgical care. National ASC Month promotes awareness to both the public and elected officials as a surgical solution rather than the hospital surgical setting. Graham-Field’s Hausted line of surgical and procedure chairs is a preferred patient…
Graham-Field Proudly Supports Mercy Ships

16.9 million people die annually due to the lack of access to safe surgery. That is equivalent to the entire population of Senegal. Despite COVID-19, Mercy Ships performed 3,138 surgical procedures and 16,067 dental procedures in 2021. Mercy Ships also provides education, training, and mentoring in dentistry, medical courses, and nutritional agriculture. Graham-Field CEO, Ken…
Needlestick Damage Control 101: Tips for Transitioning to Safety Scalpels

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was established in 2000 to address the exposure to bloodborne pathogens resulting from accidental sharps injuries in healthcare and other occupational settings. This act introduced an expansion of OSHA’s requirements for employers to establish programs to identify, evaluate, and implement safer devices and practices. The CDC…
Streamline Patient Flow with Hausted® Surgical & Procedural Chairs

When we consider all the resources that must come together to treat patients efficiently in a busy emergency department or freestanding surgery center, small adjustments to patient-handling processes can revolutionize patient care. That’s why Graham-Field focuses on improving patient flow through the specialized engineering built into our Hausted® Surgical & Procedural Chairs. In an emergency department, shorter wait…
Graham-Field Partners With Mercy Ships to Help Developing Nations

GF Health Products, Inc. (“Graham-Field”) is embarking on a new journey with Mercy Ships to help provide critical care to those most in need. As part of this Community Giving effort, we will be donating medical equipment to help support Mercy Ships’ surgical care efforts in Africa and other medically underserved locations. Created in 1978 by Don Stephens, Mercy Ships is an international…
Improving the Efficiency of Your Ambulatory Surgical Center with Hausted

As of December 2012 there were approximately 5,357* Medicare-certified ASCs and about 3,360 HOPD, according to ASC Utilization data. In 2006, there were almost 35 million ambulatory surgical visits; approximately 20 million surgeries and procedures were performed in HOPDs, and approximately 15 million were performed in ASCs. And the trend of moving outpatient services to…