[Kelly Curry, CFO, Health Management Associates, at UBS Global Health Care Services Conference, Feb. 8, 2012]
[DaVincis are] pretty neat because you're taking about something that was less invasive, considerably less – now, even being less invasive. So, the technology opportunities that brings, you've reduced, by two sites, the place for an infection to enter, okay? That's one of the reasons why our quality scores are what they are--because of our focus on our technologies. In fact as a company, our numbers are through October 31 on this, so far, but in our 66 facilities we've had one central line infection all year--one.
Okay, I can tell you that is huge. Any time you have an infection situation, it's negative for your financial performance, but it's negative for the patient and what we want to do is to deliver the best quality healthcare. So, we want to reduce those. Also, if I do you on an outpatient basis for a knee, you're not there to get an infection because you're at home. So, we continue to develop our robotics programs. We presently have 20 deployed MAKOplasty units and as the physicians are trained and desirous, we're adding hip kits to those for that new aspect of surgery. We've done about nine hips so far through the end of the year. I don't know how many we've done in the last couple of months. But again, that's a less invasive, quicker recovery time, lower infection environment.
[DaVincis are] pretty neat because you're taking about something that was less invasive, considerably less – now, even being less invasive. So, the technology opportunities that brings, you've reduced, by two sites, the place for an infection to enter, okay? That's one of the reasons why our quality scores are what they are--because of our focus on our technologies. In fact as a company, our numbers are through October 31 on this, so far, but in our 66 facilities we've had one central line infection all year--one.
Okay, I can tell you that is huge. Any time you have an infection situation, it's negative for your financial performance, but it's negative for the patient and what we want to do is to deliver the best quality healthcare. So, we want to reduce those. Also, if I do you on an outpatient basis for a knee, you're not there to get an infection because you're at home. So, we continue to develop our robotics programs. We presently have 20 deployed MAKOplasty units and as the physicians are trained and desirous, we're adding hip kits to those for that new aspect of surgery. We've done about nine hips so far through the end of the year. I don't know how many we've done in the last couple of months. But again, that's a less invasive, quicker recovery time, lower infection environment.
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