Karen Lombard, RN, is contract manager, medical/surgical for Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization. She previously ran a 21-OR ambulatory surgery center and helped to achieve an infection rate of just 0.3 percent. Q: How do you think…
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Here are reports on 15 new surgery centers covered by Becker's ASC Review in March.
IRS issues notice of tax exempt status of ACOs {click here}. The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice laying out its views on how participation in an accountable care organization could affect a non-profit hospital's tax-exempt status, and the…
Investigators into infections caused by contaminated intravenous feeding bags at six different Alabama hospitals which resulted in nine deaths in March have announced they found the same bacteria present in the bags at the pharmacy which prepared the bags, according…
A new multidisciplinary healthcare practice which includes an ambulatory surgery center has opened in Englewood, N.J., according to a news release from the practice, Health East Medical Center.
The Food and Drug Administration is facing questions from two U.S. senators who wondered why the FDA failed to take public action over manufacturing sterility and contamination problems at Triad Group despite the FDA's knowledge of the issues dating back…
Access MediQuip, a national provider of outsourced implantable medical device management solutions, has announced the launching of a new quarterly electronic newsletter focusing on surgical implant devices.
The Connecticut Department of Public Health has released a report on a class of infections acquired in Connecticut acute-care hospitals, according to a department news release.
Johns Hopkins Researchers Urge Providers to Remove Children's Catheters Quickly to Prevent Infection
Hospitals can reduce the risk of life-threatening bloodstream infections in children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by assessing the patient's progress daily and removing the device as early as possible, according to a hospital news release.
A number of states have proposed measure to alter the process required to obtain a certificate of need for an ambulatory surgery center, according to an ASC Association release.