Construction has been completed on an ophthalmology surgery center in Fort Myers, Fla., according to a report from the Naples Daily News.
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An exciting opportunity exists as the Director of Clinical Services for Surgical Management Professionals. SMP is an organization of healthcare executives and physicians who have created a successful ambulatory surgical center/specialty hospital model.
The Joint Commission has announced the appointing of Isabel Hoverman, MD, MACP, as 2011 chair of the Board of Commissioners.
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Researchers from the University of Iowa have developed a hand-hygiene tracking method, enabled by credit card-sized devices called motes, according to a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
A psychiatrist from Nampa, Idaho, has been accused of filing more than $30,000 in false claims to Medicaid, according to a KIVITV news report.
A Hollywood, Fla., ophthalmologist has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, filing false tax returns and lying to federal law enforcement agents, according to a Miami Herald news report.
Using drugs to block the IL-1 receptor might help control post-surgery pain, according to a paper published in the Dec. 2010 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Anesthesiologists have a responsibility to improve the peri-operative period and increase the volume of anesthesiology research, according to an editorial published in Anesthesiology and written by James C. Eisenach, MD, of the department of anesthesiology and physiology and pharmacology at…
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