Contractors building a new surgery center for East Texas Medical Center-Crockett are projecting a November completion date for the project, according to an East Texas News report.
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The following article is written by Terry Andrus, president and CEO of East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala.
CMS has released the ASC Quality Reporting Specifications Manual, version 1.0, according to the ASC Association.
President Obama's healthcare reform law focuses in part on reducing "unnecessary care," or tests and procedures ordered for reasons other than medical necessity. Despite the goal's good intentions, many physicians object to the push to reduce "unnecessary care," saying reality…
Because compensation packages vary so much across physician specialties, there's bound to be both satisfaction and discontent, and in 2011, the overall satisfaction with pay was down across most physician specialties, according to Medscape's 2012 Physician Compensation Report.
The following statistics on global patient satisfaction reflect satisfaction in six countries in addition to the United States.
Here are 10 hospitals that recently announced or developed surgery centers, according to various news reports.
World Hand Hygiene Day is May 5, and UMF Corporation is taking this occasion to remind healthcare administrators and staff that without environmental hand hygiene as a component, hand-washing programs will likely fail in reducing preventable healthcare-associated infections.
Covidien has acquired Israel-based PolyTouch Medical, a developer of hernia mesh placement technologies, according to a news release.
Optovue has announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance of the XR version of its RTVue FD-OCT system, according to a news release (pdf).