Massachusetts House majority leader Ronald Mariano plans to file legislation today that would require insurers to reduce payments to the priciest hospitals and physicians, according to a Boston Globe report.
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Less-experienced surgeons experience a lower perioperative morbidity rate and sound early oncologic outcomes with robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, compared with other surgical interventions, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and a Urology Times report.
The University of South Florida wants to charge more than double the usual tuition for its new nurse anesthesia program, according to a Tampa Tribune report.
Health insurance exchanges could help poor people receive more than $100 billion in government benefits for which they are eligible, according to a Crain's New York Business report.
Here are reports featuring five downloadable patient safety and staff education tools which were added to the Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control Database of Downloadable Patient Safety Tools & Resources during the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a part of the CDC, offers a free, nine-minute video featuring an interview with Diane Mawyer, a nurse whose life was changed by a sharps injury that infected her with hepatitis C.
The CDC provides a free, web-based hand hygiene training course.
The Niagara Health Quality Coalition has published the 2011 edition of its New York State Hospital Report Card along with a safety analysis, and 20 hospitals in the state have been named to the "Watch List" of hospitals with troubled…
A new committee has been formed in North Carolina to examine the state's certificate of need laws, according to a North Carolina Healthcare Report column and a news release from Rep. John Torbett (pdf).
A certificate of need application by Mission Hospital, based in Asheville, N.C., to relocate an endoscopy unit to a new outpatient center has been denied by state regulators, according to an Asheville Citizen-Times report.