The Sustainable Hospitals Program, located within the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Work Environment, and part of The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, offers free, downloadable guidelines for how — and why — to make a display board of…
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The Sustainable Hospitals Program, located within the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Work Environment, and part of The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, offers free, downloadable guidelines for how to make an inventory list of sharps devices.
Since it opened almost 25 years ago, the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Greater New York in the Bronx has remained an ophthalmology-only ASC. Jerome H. Levy, MD, managing director and medical director of the center, lists eight steps that have…
Jerome H. Levy, MD, managing director of the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Greater New York, an ophthalmic ASC in the Bronx, and president emeritus of the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society, makes seven observations about the future of ophthalmic ASCs.
A Bellevue, Wash.-based surgeon has been suspended for 30 days over the death of a liposuction patient, according to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer report.
The Division of Pain Medicine and its Pain Management Center at the University of Virginia continues to advance the pain management specialty, continuing a tradition started by anesthesiologist Harold Carron, MD, in 1970, according to a Pain Medicine News report.
Anesthesiologist David L. Dugan, MD, has been named to the board of directors of Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and Saint John Hospital in Leavenworth, Kan., according to a news release.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned eye care professionals not to make false safety claims and promises about LASIK eye surgery, according to a HealthDay report.
The degree of success for a facility's ICD-10 transition hinges on the ability of physicians and nurses to comply with new documentation requirements, according to a Search Health IT report.
The ASC industry should prepare for potential Medicare cuts as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction convenes to identify solutions for reducing the federal budget deficit, according to an ASCA release.