Practice Partners in Healthcare develops, manages and purchases a minority ownership interest in ambulatory surgery centers. The company was founded by Larry Taylor, president and CEO, in 2005.
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Murphy Healthcare Group, based in Montvale, N.J., and New York, has developed more than 30 ambulatory surgery centers since 1990, with current ASC partners in states including New Jersey, Florida and Connecticut. The company was founded by CEO Robert Murphy.
The Joint Commission has announced it has corrected an element of performance (EP) note on level of disinfection.
Olympus has named Luke Calcraft as the first president of the Olympus Corp. of the Americas' Medical Systems Group.
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program has announced it has recently updated its standards.
Greg DeConciliis, PA-C, CASC, an administrator and physician assistant at Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites in Waltham, Mass., describes four trends in outpatient orthopedic surgery.
Here are 18 statistics about ENT in ambulatory surgery centers, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
A Food and Drug Administration panel of health experts unanimously voted for the approval of Optimer Pharmaceutical's antibiotic, which fights Clostridium difficile infections in patients, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek news report.
Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows there has been a drastic increase in opioid prescriptions, while prescriptions for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have decreased, according to a UPenn news release.