The Kimblery-Clark Education Bus is a mobile classroom that brings accredited CE on healthcare-associated infections and other critical healthcare issues to cities across North America. Last year, the bus visited 79 locations in the United States and Canada, visiting 60…
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The new benefit for preventive colonoscopies in the healthcare reform law is complicating collection efforts for providers such as gastroenterologists' offices and ASCs, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
The following article is written by Daniel J. Tomes, MD, partner and president of Southwest Lincoln (Neb.) Surgery Center, a Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners facility. Eighteen months ago, on the eve of opening the Southwest Lincoln Surgery Center (SWLSC),…
Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, is the new AORN perioperative education specialist who has a focus on ambulatory surgery centers. Q: Is there a regulatory guideline for disposing of suction canisters following GI endoscopy procedures? Our ASC currently disposes the…
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tenn., has selected ProVation Order Sets as the hospital's electronic order set solution.
The following are four recent questions asked of Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP, president of Sheldon S. Sones and Associates, a pharmacy and accreditation consulting firm based in Newington, Conn. 1. Q: When an ophthalmic ointment is ordered, is there…
Georgia's Gwinnett Medical Center has announced the opening of a new orthopedic surgery center in Johns Creek, Ga.
Kettering (Ohio) Medical Center has opened a new surgery center, according to a report from WDTN.
Sibley Memorial Hospital, based in Washington, D.C., has announced the opening of a new ambulatory surgery center.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has been awarded $386,000 to improve healthcare quality and patient safety, according to a news release.