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Sandra Jones, MBA, MSM, CPHRM, LHRM, CHCQM, CASC, FHFMA
Sandra founded Ambulatory Strategies Inc. in 1995 following many years of experience in hospital and outpatient services executive management and development. Sandra’s surgery center experience includes multi-specialty surgery center management at regional and national levels, financial analysis and project planning, surgery center development, hospital outpatient department (HOPD) surgery and procedure development and operational analysis, hospital/physician joint ventures, physician office-based surgery, surgery center design, licensing and accreditation. She concentrates on outpatient surgery financial and operational management, regulatory compliance, surgery center best practices, performance benchmarking, patient safety and efficient operation of surgery centers. She is licensed by the State of Florida and is Certified by the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management. She has a Master of Science in Management and a Master of Arts in Business Administration, is Certified in Healthcare Quality Management and is a Certified Administrator Surgery Center professional as well as a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Sandra is an accreditation surveyor and has served on the Board and committees of accrediting organizations. As a contributor to surgery center state and national publications, she has represented the surgery center industry at state regulatory planning and policy meetings. Sandra recently served on the Board of the ASC Association, the national professional and trade group for ambulatory surgery centers. Sandra is a member of the ASC Quality Collaboration Task Force, reviewing quality measure selection and making recommendations to CMS on quality metric selection.