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Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, Mo., and Madison Medical Center in Fredericktown, Mo., are partnering to expand orthopedics care, and Joseph B. Byrne, MD, has been added to the Perry County Orthopedics & Sports Medicine medical staff, according to…

Doylestown, Pa.-based Bucks County Orthopedic Specialists is opening a pain management office at Einstein Medical Center Montgomery in East Norriton, Pa., according to a Herald Online report.

Complimentary checklists for discharging acute myocardial infarction and heart failure patients are available from TMF Health Quality Institute, Texas' quality improvement organization.

A study showed the rate of Clostridium difficile infections in U.S. hospitals nearly doubled from 2001 to 2010, according to a Family Practice News report.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has compiled data from the 2012 CAHPS Clinician & Group Surveys on patient experience in physicians' offices.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Pedro J. Vergne will give a presentation titled "Income Diversification & Monetization of Assets Through Real Estate Ownership."

Here are seven things for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for September 12, 2013.

The term “waste” encompasses an array of definitions for hospitals and health systems, including wasted time, finances, steps and human potential, to name a few. Here are eight types of waste in healthcare, as defined by Mark Graban in his…

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons released a list of tests commonly ordered but not always necessary as part of the ABIM Foundation's Choosing Wisely campaign.

Small physician practices improved certain process and outcome measures with a pay-for-performance program, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.