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A new report in Health Affairs offers a framework for intervention success derived from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's On the CUSP: Stop BSI, a national central line-associated bloodstream infection reduction campaign.

A complimentary toolkit is available from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente to help infection preventionists evaluate or enhance infection prevention programs.

Here are nine statistics on the amount of time it takes ambulatory surgery center management and development companies to find a buyer and complete a transaction when selling a minority and controlling interest in a surgery center, according to HealthCare…

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, David Feherty will give a presentation titled "A Nasty Bit of Rough."

Carol Frey, MD, of West Coast Center for Orthopedic Surgery in Los Angeles, performed surgery on Olympic hopeful speed skater Xander Mark, according to a report on The Morning Call.

Here are nine recent news updates from ambulatory surgery center management and development companies.

In the Orthopedist Compensation Report: 2013, Medscape asked respondents whether they would consider not taking Medicare patients. Medicare traditionally reimburses lower than private payers for the same procedures.

Anthony A. Romeo, MD, and Brian J. Cole, MD, have been named to the list of The 28 Top North American Shoulder Surgeons released by Orthopedics This Week.

Despite nationally declining rates of healthcare-associated invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, incidence of the infection in children remained unchanged between 2005 and 2010, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. Read the full article at Becker’s Hospital Review.  More Articles on…

David Tonkin, MD, a pain management specialist, has moved his primary office location to Mercy McCune-Brooks Hospital in Carthage, Mo., according to a KOAM 7 report.