The Association for periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) will tackle the development of a standardized perioperative electronic healthcare record, the organization announced at its recent annual meeting. The electronic standardized perioperative record (SPR) will integrate AORN's standardized nursing vocabulary and the…
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Citing mounting financial losses and having exhausted all other options -- including giving the hospital away for free -- SSM Health Care recently announced that it will close St. Francis Hospital and Health Center, located in the Chicago suburb of…
CMS has informed DNV Healthcare that its application to deem hospitals in compliance with the Medicare Conditions of Participation has been accepted as complete and ready for formal review, according to a release from DNV Healthcare. CMS will also announce…
In a move touted as "improving quality of care and patient safety," Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed HB 1075, which lets ASCs form physician peer review committees, earlier this month. Peer review was previously only allowed by the state's hospitals.
Zimmer Holdings recently announced that it has uncovered problems with the quality systems at its Dover, Ohio, manufacturing facility, where Zimmer Orthopedic Surgical Products are produced. The company has issued a voluntary recall of such products and has temporarily suspended…
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After all these years, physician-driven surgery centers still have to battle to survive in the healthcare marketplace. Currently, there are two key issues ASCs have to be concerned about, says Robert Carrera, the President of Pinnacle III, a provider of…
A story from Forbes reports that the American Hospital Association (AHA) ranks as the 41st largest organizational political donor, according to the Washington research group Center for Responsive Politics.
Physicians can continue to markup and get paid for the professional or technical component of anatomic pathology diagnostic testing services they order but do not perform after a federal judge ordered a temporary injunction blocking a CMS provision that would…
In an effort to enhance the ability of ASCs to report healthcare outcomes and processes in a standardized manner, the National Quality Forum has endorsed five quality measures for ASCs developed by the ASC Quality Collaboration. The five facility-level ASC…
A bill that makes Georgia's certificate of need process less cumbersome and redefines general surgery as a "single specialty" was signed by the governor April 9. The law takes effect July 1.