Birth Name. Gender. Biography. Though she played a true-blue American Marine lawyer on CBS's J.A.G., Catherine Bell is actually London-born. When her parents, Peter, an architect, and Mina, a nurse, divorced when Catherine was a toddler, she and her mother settled in Los Angeles, California. A self-described geek, Bell thrived in math andâ¦more.
Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are medical facilities that specialize in elective same-day or outpatient surgical procedures. They do not offer emergency care. The word ambulatory comes from the Latin verb ambulare , which means to walk..
Surgeons as well as patients tend to prefer ambulatory surgery centers for outpatient procedures for several reasons: 1  Cost. In many cases, an outpatient procedure done in an ASC costs between one-half and one-third as much as the same procedure done in a hospital. 2  Convenience.