Interdisciplinary team rounds decreased the number of days patients had urinary catheters and the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infections at Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center, according to a study in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
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HHS has released a draft "National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention."
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Trish Corey will give a presentation titled "Pre-Op Screening Prior to Day of Surgery – How to Achieve Patient Compliance."
Burlington County Endoscopy Center, a GI Ambulatory Surgery Center located in Lumberton, N.J., has an exciting opportunity for an Administrator/Director of Nursing!
Here are seven things for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for September 9, 2013.
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Here are the 10 most popular patient safety tools for the week of Sept. 2 to 6, 2013, beginning with the most popular.
Maine, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Vermont will restrict Medicaid eligibility for certain groups starting next year, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Although nonprofit hospitals continued to have strong balance sheets in fiscal year 2012, many financial performance indicators were weak compared with the three years prior, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.
Nine of the largest for-profit hospital operators reported quarterly earnings over the past month. Seven of the nine companies recorded second-quarter earnings for fiscal year 2013. Vanguard Health Systems posted fourth-quarter and year-end results for FY 2013, and IASIS Healthcare…
Surgical Care Affiliates is seeking a Sr. Director, Volume Growth. Their goal will be to ensure SCA leads the industry in profitable case volume growth by identifying the key levers to same-site volume growth, leading the development of the platform…