The Arcadia Energetics 4-H Club held a toy drive for the pediatric patients of Carroll, Iowa-based St. Anthony Regional Hospital's emergency department, surgery center and clinic, CBC Online reports.
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Eutawville, S.C., resident Tammy Gray Jackson, 43, will participate in a clinical trial involving a stem cells at ParkCreek Surgery Center in Coconut Creek, Fla., The Times and Democrat reports.
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and Joan Dentler, president and CEO of Avanza Healthcare Strategies, outlined four ways ASCs can take advantage of their relationship with a hospital in an AORN blog post.
Sturgis (Mich.) Hospital plans to reorganize to focus more on more sustainable outpatient services, according to a press release posted on the hospital's Facebook page.
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Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta discovered an unauthorized person gained access to an employee's email account through a phishing scam, and the incident was reported to HHS Nov. 16.
Advocate Aurora Health, which has dual headquarters in Downers Grove, Ill., and Milwaukee, plans to increase minimum wage for employees across the health system to $15 an hour, The Journal Times reports.
Rochester, N.Y.-based Surgery Center at Sawgrass nurses Patricia McLanahan, Kristen Kelly and Nadia Tillet use toys to make young patients feel more comfortable when coming to the ASC for surgery, WHAM reported.
MDLinx detailed the results of a survey showing comparing physician compensation models for salaried providers.
Brian Brown, the regional vice president of operations for AmSurg, outlined three ways ASCs can manage losing a volume leader in a post for the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses website.