Hello, and welcome to the Becker's Healthcare podcast.
My name is Chanel Banger. And today, I
am recording live at the twenty second annual
Spine Orthopedic and Pain Management Driven ASC
plus the Future of Spine Conference and sitting
down with Sarah Carson,
administrator at Ascentis ASC Merriam. Sarah, thank you
so much for joining me today. Now can
you get us started out by
introducing yourself and telling us a little bit
about your background and organization?
Hi.
So I have been administrator at Ascentis,
for a little over three years.
I'd
say we've had,
huge amount of growth in the last
in just in that time frame. Our surgery
center opened during COVID.
And,
in the three and a half years I've
been there, we've went from approximately two hundred
cases a month to four hundred and fifty
to five hundred.
So it's been a huge amount of growth.
Our primary service is ear, nose, throat, and,
second to that would be plastics, but we
do have multi specialty.
So, yeah, we're continuously growing.
Perfect. And now to get into the meat
of the podcast a bit, can you talk
about maybe three trends that you're watching in
health care and ASCs today?
I think looking at where things are headed
mostly with,
spine and maybe some cardiology
services are things we're watching closely to see
how we need to adapt to that. Got
it. Got it. And going into the 2025,
what are you most focused on and excited
about?
We're actually focused on we do a lot
of pediatrics.
We are very heavy in pediatrics.
I'd say we're probably
second to the children's hospital in our area,
so,
see a lot of those patients.
So I think what I'm excited about is,
we've kind of maximized our growth at our
current surgery center. So,
looking at maybe a second location and then
being able to focus pediatrics at,
one of those locations and then seeing how
we can grow whether it's in the,
ortho spine pain space in another location.
Got it. Got it. And in that same
vein, how are you thinking about growth in
the next or the upcoming year?
We've definitely
have grown a lot. I would say pain
has grown,
has been our biggest growth that we've had
recently, and I think continuing to, progress in
that. Perfect. Well, Sarah, I wanna thank you
for your time today. But before I let
you go, is there anything else that listeners
should know? I don't think so. I think,
yeah, excited to see,
just knowing that ASC space is,
always
growing for everyone, kind of how we can,
utilize that and make the best of it.
Yep. Got it. Well, Sarah, I wanna thank
you once again for your time today and
for sharing your insights on the Deckers HealthCare
podcast. Thank you.