Massachusetts' Medicaid pay-for-performance program did not improve quality outcomes one year after its implementation in 2008, according to research findings published by the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality.
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The Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality provides a free, downloadable sample isolation policy.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has announced the launch of its redesigned website hosted at www.ascassociation.org.
Lisa Delaney has been named the new director of nursing for Southern Surgery Center in Hattiesburg, Miss., according to a Mississippi Business Journal report.
Unity Health System, based in Rochester, N.Y., is set to acquire Linden Oaks Surgery Center in Rochester, according to a Democrat and Chronicle report.
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Gem City Bone & Joint Center in Laramie, Wyo., has begun to re-brand itself the Premier Bone & Joint Center, according to a KOWB 1290 report.
While Texas is reviewing health insurance companies' rate increases of at least 10 percent to determine whether they are justified, as mandated under healthcare reform, the state has not yet publicized information on significant rate hikes to the public, according…
Edward Lin, MD, an anesthesiologist-turned-entrepreneur from Sarasota, Fla., has invented a device that could drastically improve complex chronic wound care, according to a Gulf Coast Business Review report.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has partnered with Elsevier | MC Strategies to launch an online nursing course to help nurses improve safe administration of medications commonly used in critical care, according to a news release.