A child has been infected with hepatitis C after receiving an infected donor’s heart tissue at Children’s Hospital Boston, according to a WBUR report.
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An Alaska surgeon group that had a certificate of need request to build an ambulatory surgery center in Kenai denied by the state has completed and submitted a new CON application for the facility, according to state documents.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis has broken ground on a new project that includes an outpatient surgery center, according to a Suburban Journals report.
Checklists can be a useful tool to help ensure proper policies and procedures are followed, improve infection prevention efforts, reduce errors and deliver better patient safety and quality care. Here are links to 10 reports that provide downloadable checklists that…
Here are 15 benchmarking statistics about staff in ambulatory surgery centers, broken down by average (statistical mean) salary and wages, hours per case and number of full-time employees, from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. These figures come from the…
Pain management was the fourth most common specialty in ambulatory surgery centers with 17 percent of overall case volume, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. Using compensation data from MGMA's Physician Compensation and Production Survey 2011 Report Based…
The Obama administration has urged health insurers to withhold payments when they think patients may be “shopping” among physicians to obtain prescription drugs, according to a report from The Hill. Though HHS normally requires Medicare drug plans to pay claims…
Mazor Robotics, a spine device company focused on surgical robotics, recently singed a purchase agreement with NSH Michigan for its Renaissance system, according to a Mazor news release.
Beverly Robins RN, BSN, MBA, is director of accreditation services for the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program. Ms. Robins joined HFAP in October. She most recently served as director of nursing ambulatory care at the University of Chicago, and previously served…
The University of Michigan Health System's Ypsilanti comprehensive and pediatric ophthalmology offices will consolidate in a $650,000 project that will significantly expand the practice's capacity, according to a report from Ann Arbor.com.