The VA National Center for Patient Safety offers a free, downloadable brochure designed to educate patients on what will happen before their surgery and how caregivers will ensure safe and correct surgery.
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Nick Vailas, former commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services and the CEO of Bedford (N.H.) Ambulatory Surgical Center, spoke to lawmakers this week in support of a bill that would eliminate the state's certificate of…
A new ambulatory surgery center is coming to Wichita, Kan., later this year, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.
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