Kerry Solomon, MD, is a practicing cataract and LASIK surgeon at Physicians' Eye Surgery Center in Charleston, S.C.
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The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC/Accreditation Association) has released its recommendations for revising its standards for 2012 for public comment.
MedBridge, a developer and operators of ambulatory surgery centers, has announced it has named Christopher Tormey as its director of clinical operations.
In April 2010, the Roanoke Orthopaedic Center, the largest independent orthopedic group in Southwest Virginia, merged with the Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic. ROC had approached Carilion Health System about a possible merger several years earlier after the hospital-based physician group converted…
Broward Health Coral Springs (Fla.) Medical Center (CSMC) has announced it received the People's Choice Award at the 2011 annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology for its film focusing on efforts to minimize catheter-related…
Nazanin Barzideh, MD, a vitreoretinal surgeon, has joined Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., according to a report by the Garden City News.
Prescription painkillers are often a key gateway to using injected illegal drugs such as heroin, according to a news release by the Drexel University School of Public Health.
One-quarter to one-half of Americans age 65 or older experience pain, and many of them are not treated, according to a report by Internal Medicine News.
CMS has determined that ICD-9-CM codes for 786.50 Chest pain, unspecified and 786.51 Precordial pain "flow from the existing narrative for conditions for which a [PT test] is reasonable and necessary," according to an AAPC report.