The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published an infection prevention checklist for outpatient settings.
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Sanford Health, based in Sioux Falls, S.D., has announced the opening of the Sanford Health Same Day Surgery Center in Detroit Lakes, Minn.
In a brief video filmed at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in May 2011, Hugh Morgan, director of quality assurance for Somnia Anesthesia, discussed how improving quality, reducing cost and embracing transparency can help hospitals succeed in an new…
Drug labels can sometimes lack key safety warnings, and information sheets on medications can be confusing, loaded with medical jargon and sometimes unreadable due to tiny print, according to investigation findings by Consumer Reports Health. Read the full report in…
OSHA has issued more than a dozen citations to Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., for workplace health and safety standards, according to an OSHA news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on Interfaith Medical Center’s OSHA…
In an interview with The Albany Herald, Richard Bowe, MD, senior vice president of physician practices with Phoebe Putney Health Systems in Albany, Ga., discussed his career, lessons from the recession and anesthesia-related technology.
Physicians often perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation improperly in children, generating excessive rescue breaths that could cause "overventilation," according to a study reported in Anesthesiology News.
Steven Shearing, MD, a pioneer in cataract surgery, died on Sunday at age 76, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal report.
Erik Steele, DO, CMO of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems in Bangor, Maine, has urged healthcare providers to make patients and their families a part of managing their health by issuing their own patient co-pilot safety checklists, according to an editorial…
Thomas Elgin, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Orange Coast Memorial Hospital in Fountain Valley, Calif., has received public reprimand by the Medical Board of California for negligent record keeping, according to official documentation.