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Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) congratulates St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana on its award-winning success in a story on the HFAP website.

Here are five ASC industry leaders who work to improve profits, quality outcomes and regulatory compliance in surgery centers.

Here are five established strategies for gaining leverage and prevailing in vendor contract negotiations.

MiMedx Group, a Marietta, Ga.-based manufacturer of biomaterial-based products, has completed the acquisition of Surgical Biologics, a development company focused on tissue-processing techniques for creating implants, according to a company news release.

A study from Rhode Island Hospital reveals the quantity of MRSA bacteria at different sites of the body and the relationship between the quantities at different sites, according to a news release.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has released its first guidelines for treatment of MRSA infections, according to an IDSA news release.

William Holley, MD, a podiatrist from Buffalo, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to submitting a false claim to Medicare for a procedure he never performed, according to a WIVB news report.

Howard Goldstein, MD, an internist from Clayton, Mo., has been sentenced to five months imprisonment and ordered to pay $30,000 for making false statements about his questionable Medicare billing practices, according to a KSDK news report.

With the Jan. 9 deadline for submitting comments on the proposed rules for the Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor program drawing near, the AHA and other hospital organizations have submitted a variety of proposed changes, according to Paul Spencer's FiMed Blog…

William Roe, former CFO of Danbury (Conn.) Hospital, has pleaded guilty to stealing approximately $200,000 from Danbury Hospital and St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima, Ohio, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek news report.