HCA, which operates 164 hospitals and 111 ambulatory surgery centers, announced that two veteran HCA division presidents will undertake new responsibilities for surgery centers in various states, according to a MarketWatch report.
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Advanced Sterilization Products has launched a new education website — hosted at www.aspjj.com/us/prof-ed — that provides access to scientific evidence, practice guidance, government regulations and standards to help protect healthcare patients and workers against infection.
Premier, a healthcare alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 64,000 other healthcare sites, offers a free, downloadable and adaptable evaluation form for safety needle/syringe devices.
More than a third of healthcare providers believe medical practices are not completely in accordance with the Standards for Basic Anesthetic Monitoring developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, according to a survey conducted by the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health…
Sharps are objects that can penetrate a worker’s skin, such as needles, scalpels, broken glass, capillary tubes and the exposed ends of dental wires. If blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM), as defined in the OSHA bloodborne pathogens standard…
Facing a "stagnant" U.S. market, the medical supplies industry is focusing more on international operations, according to a Paragon Report news release.
The former office manager of a shuttered Columbus, Ohio, pain clinic has received a 10-year, 10-month sentence in federal prison for illegally distributing prescriptions, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides a free, downloadable brochure which provides patients with tips to use before, during and after a medical appointment.
Orexigen Therapeutics has received FDA approval to resume development of an obesity pill, according to a company news release.
A New York podiatrist will pay $800,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that he submitted claims to Medicare for services that could not have been performed in the time period reported, according to a news release from the…