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Title: Hospitals and Surgery Centers: Key Thoughts on Strategic Planning
As capital markets begin to open up and healthcare reform starts to take shape, momentum for hospital acquisition activity is building, although the buyers and sellers may have different characteristics this time around.
On Monday evening the U.S. Senate will vote on a one-month extension of the Medicare physician fee fix, which expired on April 1 but has been given a 10-day grace period by CMS, according to a report by the Medical…
Brian Proctor, DO, is an ophthalmologist on staff at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, a 250-bed community hospital in Melrose Park, Ill., outside of Chicago, which is part of the Loyola University Health System. Dr. Proctor and three other ophthalmologists use one…
Newton, Mass.-based HRPT Properties Trust of Massachusetts, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, has purchased Clear Creek Surgery Center in Wheat Ridge, Colo., for $4.45 million, according to a report in the Denver Business Journal.
Saint Joseph's Health System and Piedmont Healthcare, both based in Atlanta, have signed a letter of intent to enter exclusive negotiations to create a joint operating company that combine certain assets of both SJHS and PHC, including Saint Joseph’s Hospital…
Computer-assisted total knee replacements result in better leg alignment, less likelihood of infection and lower early failure rates than conventional surgeries, according to a study of 1,000 robotic procedures performed at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Over-the-scope-clips, initially designed for hemostatis of gastrointestinal bleeding, may be the least invasive method to close chronic small fistulas, according to a study in the April 7, 2010, issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists' Ambulatory Surgical Care committee issued a statement, advising anesthesiologists to consider monitoring patients for exhaled carbon dioxide in procedures using propofol, especially involving the upper GI tract.