Franciscan St. Anthony Health - Crown Point (Ind.) has opened a new ambulatory surgery center in Crown Point, according to an NWI Times report.
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In an interoffice memorandum (pdf) to the New York Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC), the New York State Department of Public Health's Division of Health Facility Planning is recommending changes to streamline the certificate of need process for…
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Measurable benchmarks are crucial to running a successful surgery center. The most successful surgery centers track clinical, financial and efficiency-focused data. Administrators can track data from one month to the next to identify and project growth. They can also compare…
Laser Spine Institute has developed a health and wellness program for the more 450 employees in the company. Programs offered include disease management, smoking cessation, weight loss challenges and a running club.
The National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium this week designated 11 health professional schools Centers of Excellence in Pain Education. The centers will act as hubs for the development, evaluation and distribution of pain management curriculum resources to enhance pain…
The government's proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has kicked off a battle between patients and providers, and the compromise may not fully satisfy either party, according to an InformationWeek editorial.
The key to a successful "no photo zone rule" in a physician practice is allowing no exceptions, according to an American Medical News report.
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The project, led by Anthony Hudetz, PhD, professor of anesthesiology, physiology and biophysics, will investigate how…
Fifteen states this week asked the U.S. Justice Department for help in obtaining the anesthesia drug sodium thiopental for use in executions, according to a Chicago Tribune report.