Author: Patsy Newitt

AdventHealth’s Central Florida hospitals are resuming some outpatient procedures after a "leveling off" of local COVID-19 cases, Orlando Sentinel reported Aug. 25. 

A recent survey found that while 70 percent of Americans trust their physicians, only 22 percent trust hospital executives. 

Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center, a RWJBarnabas Health facility, launched a gastroenterology fellowship through a partnership with Rutgers Health, according to the Hudson Reporter.

Surgery Center South and Flowers Hospital, both in Dothan, Ala., are teaming up to provide monoclonal antibody infusion therapy to COVID-19 patients, Dothan Eagle reported Aug. 24. 

Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International is hiring at least 16 administrators nationally. 

Twenty-one percent of surveyed hospitals think telehealth is routinely leveraged in gastroenterology, according to a survey from management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. 

Here's who leads the five largest health insurers by membership, according to a May 2021 ValuePenguin report.

Ophthalmology has seen one of the highest drops in outpatient volume from June 2019 to 2021, according to a survey from management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. 

Rochester, N.Y.-based Cornerstone Eye Associates held a grand opening for a new ASC on Aug. 24.

Pfizer's fully FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine will now be marketed as Comirnaty for people ages 16 and older. The shot is still available under emergency use authorization for people ages 12 and up.