Fremont, Calif.-based Scios, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has pleaded guilty to misbranding its heart failure drug Natrecor and will pay an $85 million criminal fine, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Scios admitted that…
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Texas hospitals are partnering to launch an initiative designed to provide hospital nurses with higher education, according to a NewsWest 9 report.
The California Nurses Association has accused Sutter Health, based in Sacramento, of conducting an illegal lockout following a one-day strike last month.
All 58 of Oregon’s community hospitals are now participating in a voluntary hospital reporting program spearheaded by the Oregon Patient Safety Commission. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on the Oregon Patient Safety Commission.
It's budget-planning season for many ambulatory surgery centers, and that includes the ASCs for Meridian Surgical Partners. Brian Brown, regional vice president, operations, for Meridian, oversees the budget planning for the management and development company's surgery centers in his region.…
Most satisfaction issues within an ambulatory surgery center come down to time, says Kris Sabo, executive director of Pend Oreille Center in Ponderay, Idaho, where the patient satisfaction rates are routinely at or above 97 percent. But patients aren't the…
A new ophthalmic ambulatory surgery center in Honolulu is scheduled to open in November, according a Honolulu Star-Advertiser report.
A Texas attorney has been sentenced to 120 days in jail, 10 years of probation and fined $6,000 after he was convicted in a retaliation case involving two nurses who filed an anonymous complaint with the Texas Medical Board against…
Elective surgery appears to be comparably safe at any time of the workday or workweek and in any month of the year, according to a study published in the Oct. 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
A multi-disciplinary program implemented two years ago in an Ontario hospital allows patients to be discharged from an ambulatory hospital two days after hip or knee replacement surgery, according to a Pain Medicine News report.