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Washington University Orthopedics in St. Louis announced the opening of a walk-in clinic at the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Orthopedic Center in Chesterfield, Mo.

Medtronic announced the development of the Medtronic Hospital Solution, a business focused on hospital partnerships to increase operational efficiency.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, industry experts will give a presentation titled "Key Thoughts on Medicare Inspections and Survey Readiness."  

Lt. Col. Dr. Chad Hivnor, a physician with the Dermatology Clinic at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, recently received the 2013 Paul W. Myers Award from the U.S. Air Force Association, according to a report from The Courier.

"We have a pretty robust safety reporting culture here," says Carrie Tuskey, director of risk management at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System. But she admits, "It takes a long time to change the mindset in healthcare around error reporting." Here,…

Here are the 10 most popular patient safety tools for the week of Aug. 26 to 30, 2013, beginning with the most popular.

Family medicine and general internal medicine are the top two most-recruited medical specialties, according Merritt Hawkins' 2013 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives.

  A new study published in the American Journal of Medical Quality finds that standardizing the surgical care process leads to increased compliance with the Surgical Care Improvement Project.

Mark R. McLaughlin, MD, held a neurosurgery boot camp for West Point (N.Y.) Army head football coach, Rich Ellerson, and his entire coaching staff at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, N.J., according to a News Transcript report.

Slocum Center for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Eugene, Ore., announced the addition of Heather A. Campion, MD, to its medical staff.