Today’s healthcare environment demands more than ever of surgeons and the hospitals they work in. Payors, including Medicare, increasingly refuse to pay for treating complications deemed preventable, such as surgical site infections. A growing movement aims to tie reimbursements to outcomes – and publicly report the results. At the same time, hospitals face staffing shortages and financial pressures, trying to do more with less.

Discover what hundreds of hospitals across America already know. A surgical quality improvement program so effective that EACH YEAR a hospital uses it, on average, it has the opportunity to:

• Prevent 250-500 complications
• Save 12-36 lives
• Reduce costs by millions of dollars

Discover the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP^®). ACS NSQIP is the leading nationally validated, risk-adjusted, outcomes-based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care in the private sector. ACS NSQIP has the tools, training, customization options and, most importantly, data, to keep your hospital ahead of the curve.

SAVE THE DATES

2013 ACS NSQIP^® National Conference

July 13-16, 2013
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
San Diego, California

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ACS NSQIP^® National Conference Call for Abstracts Now Closed

Thank you to all of the ACS NSQIP hospitals that submitted an abstract for presentation at the 2013 Conference. The call for abstracts is now closed. Final decisions on abstract acceptance will be made in early spring. We will notify the primary authors of abstracts accepted with further guidelines for presentation and poster preparation around that time.

If you have any questions, please contact Whitney Watson at wwatson@facs.org.