Regent Surgical Health has announced Andrea Woodell has joined its executive team as director of managed care, according to a report from Regent Surgical Health.
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The last year and a half has seen more significant drug shortages than the last 30 years, says Meena Desai, MD, managing partner for Nova Anesthesia Professionals. The shortages have affected anesthesia and chemotherapy drugs most severely, creating problems for…
Provista, a supply chain improvement company, has announced the launch of a new inventory management tool for assist non-acute care providers, according to a Provista news release.
Bryanne Patail, biomedical engineer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Patient Safety, discusses patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps and what the Veterans Health Administration has done to reduce errors and improve patient safety. This interview was conducted…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers a free, downloadable sample observation tool for hand hygiene and glove use compliance.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable placement guide for where to put hand hygiene promotional materials.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health will publish healthcare quality report cards for more than 70 hospitals, which showed women in the state suffer twice as many surgical site infections after vaginal hysterectomies than national rates, according to a Boston…
The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health has published four priorities for 2012, including full implement of a total product life cycle approach and enhanced communication and transparency.
Results from a recent study showed at least one sample from 95 percent of 20 electronic faucets was contaminated with Legionella species, compared to 45 percent of 20 manual faucets, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
A team of Stanford University researchers have developed a Web-based game called Septris designed to teach clinicians how to diagnose and treat sepsis.