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Here are eight fast tips on how to negotiate better payor contracts for orthopedics and spine.

In April 2011, the Office of National Drug Control Policy declared the American opioid abuse problem an epidemic. Robert Saenz, CEO of Tulsa Pain Consultants, president of VIP Medical Consulting and former Federal agent, says physicians need to be more…

Information & Quality Healthcare, a not-for-profit corporation serving as the federally designated quality improvement organization for Mississippi, provides a free, downloadable poster on pressure ulcer wounds.

Sepsis prevention and management should be a key component of a hospital's infection control program. CDC found the number of hospitalizations for sepsis more than doubled from 2000-2008. Both national institutions and patients support an increased focus on sepsis in…

Here are 10 recent Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control reports on Clostridium Difficile which include tools you can download for use by your organization and resources you can use to improve your C. Diff prevention efforts. Note:…

The Infection Control Professionals of Southern New England provides a free, downloadable brochure on Clostridium Difficile infection.

Johns Hopkins provides a free, downloadable PowerPoint that features nine colorful posters to help encourage proper hand hygiene and hand washing.

Maury Harwood, MD, a physician at National Ambulatory Surgery Center in Los Gatos, Calif., performed tibia surgery on a Yamaha full-factory road racing team member in late December, according to a Motorcyclist Magazine report.

The following article is written by Regina Robinson, RN, MBA, CMPE, CASC, director of Peninsula Surgery Center in Newport News, Va.   An ambulatory surgery center is always looking for ways to control and reduce its costs and central supply…

The Everett Clinic, based in Everett, Wash., is seeking a QA/QA nursing manager for its outpatient surgery department.