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Mark Cohen, MD, director of the section of hand and elbow surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, is scheduled to perform elbow surgery on the Chicago White Sox prospect Micah Johnson, according to an MLB.com report.

Northpoint Surgery and Laser Center physician Andrew Seltzer, DO, recently performed 45 surgeries as part of a medical mission trip to Honduras.

ASCA Board Member Gregory Cunniff has been appointed the new CFO for Victory Healthcare in The Woodlands, Texas.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care offers complimentary resources to help ambulatory care centers improve patient safety and quality of care.

While healthcare professionals are committed to improving hand hygiene, they may not believe their institutions are at fault and themselves are not employing best practices, leading to a cycle of stagnant hand hygiene compliance progress, according to recent survey results…

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released an infographic on health literacy pathways inspired by a February 2013 Health Affairs blog post, "A Proposed 'Health Literate Care Model' Would Constitute A Systems Approach to Improving Patients' Engagement in…

An official analysis of the September 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak connected to injections of methylprednisolone acetate from a compounding pharmacy has found it caused 61 deaths and 749 incident-related infections, according to a study in The New England Journal of…

Here are seven leadership changes at surgery centers and within the industry.

Here are seven things for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for Oct. 24, 2013.

There are certainties and then there are uncertainties.