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Like wrong-site surgery and medication errors, W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, for Surgical Care Affiliates, says another adverse event that occurs with too much frequency in ambulatory surgery centers is complications…
JPS Diagnostic & Surgery Hospital of Arlington (Texas) has been relicensed and reopened as an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Star-Telegram report.
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Lou Lazatin, president and CEO of St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., recently led her hospital in establishing the Saint John's Ambulatory Surgery Center, a 12,000-square-foot, multi-specialty ASC. Here she discusses six reasons hospitals should consider developing a…
Methodist Dallas Medical Center must submit an action plan for patient safety deficiencies by Sept. 6 or risk revocation of its Medicare status, according to a Dallas Business Journal report. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Methodist…
Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, according to a UCLA Health release.
Patients at hospitals in Tennessee are safer on several key measures today than they were three years ago, due in part to the work by the Tennessee Center for Patient Safety, according to a news release.
Mike Roizen, MD, chair of the SmartTots executive board, recently traveled to India to present on pediatric anesthesia neurotoxicity, according to a MarketWatch report.