Tracy Cregg, administrator at the Surgery Center of Silverdale (Wa.), has earned her CASC credential, according to a KPBJ report.
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If your ambulatory surgery center is in the market for a new administrator, here are 13 questions Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, regional vice president of Health Inventures, suggests you ask candidates. Administrators can use this checklist as…
Use of a standardized protocol may improve patient handovers and reduce the risk of mortality, according to research presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and reported in Anesthesiology News.
A New Jersey cancer researcher and professor has admitted to hiding more than $2.5 million dollars from the Internal Revenue Services in Swiss bank accounts, according to a Star-Ledger report. Michael Reiss, MD, associate director of the Cancer Institute of…
Forest Laboratories CEO Howard Solomon will no longer be barred from doing business with federal healthcare programs, according to a Bloomberg report. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified the New York-based drugmaker that it had given up…
Four patients are suffering complications after receiving contaminated injections at Nashville (Tenn.) VA Medical Center, according to a Tennessean report.
Somnia Anesthesia has announced it has been recognized as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Fairlawn Surgery Center in Roanoke, Vir., is seeking state permission to relocate in the city and double its number of preoperative and recovery rooms, according to a report from The Roanoke Times.
The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has announced a "bus-in" day to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14 to lobby the New Jersey Congressional delegation in support of the ASC Quality and Access Act of 2011.
The Center for Ambulatory Surgery in Westport, Conn., which was fined and placed on probation earlier this year by the state's health department for multiple safety and procedural violations, is set to reopen now that it has met state and…