Importance Of Ambulatory Care

Ambulatory care consists of health care services that warranted an overnight stay in the hospital. Today, ambulatory care encompasses an expanding and broad array of services rather than just visits to private physicians’ offices and hospital outpatient clinics. Several factors have influenced the shift from inpatient hospitalization to ambulatory services such as, technological advancements, financial mandates, cost considerations, conveniently located facilities, and the entry of physicians into the business of outpatient services.
New diagnostic and medical procedures and technological advancements have allowed procedures that in the past required hospitalization to be performed on an outpatient basis. The surgical procedures that in the