Legacy Surgery Center of Frisco (Texas) is recruiting physicians to perform procedures at and invest in an outpatient surgery center it runs in Frisco, according to Blayne Rush, MHP, MBA, a licensed investment banker and president of Ambulatory Alliances, which…
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The Joint Commission's 2012 National Patient Safety Goals become effective Jan. 1, 2012.
Wichita Surgical Specialists, the largest group of surgeons in Wichita, Kan., has a simple goal: to remain independent through the storm of hospital employment, according to a Wichita Eagle report.
Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin has welcomed Rodney Middlebrook, MD, to the Austin Eye Center, according to an Austin Daily Herald report.
CDC provides a free, downloadable poster that demonstrates the sequences for donning and removing personal protective equipment.
The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program has announced it has updated its standards related to patient rights in ambulatory surgery centers, according to an HFAP blog post.
The Joint Commission has revised medication management standard MM.02.01.01, element of performance 2, to expand medication selection criteria to include specific populations in hospitals, according to the Dec. 21 Joint Commission Online (pdf).
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Ill., has begun offering music therapy in its cardiac and cancer care units, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report.
An increasing number of medical schools are adopting longitudinal integrated clerkship programs to train medical students while promoting patient-centered care, according to an American Medical News report.
Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Health System, was the first surgeon in the U.S. to remove a gallbladder through a patient’s belly button, according to a UCSD news release.