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LifeWings, a patient safety improvement company, shares seven steps to ensure patient safety meetings are efficient.

The Texas Department of State Health Services shut down Renaissance Hospital Terrell (Texas) Feb. 12 and CMS ended funding over patient safety deficiencies, according to a WFAA report.

Surgical Care Affiliates is seeking two analytical, motivated and entrepreneurial Directors of New Business Development to lead physician recruiting efforts of a region of three to five ambulatory surgery centers in the Northeast area and Midwest area as the company…

Scott Becker, JD, Partner at McGuireWoods and chairman of the firm's healthcare department, discusses whether spine surgeons can legally own interest in ambulatory surgery centers.

The NeuroSpine Institute of Orlando will open its first ambulatory surgery center on March 1.

Arnold Feldman, MD, interventional pain physician and medical director of The Feldman Institute in Baton Rouge, La., announced the launch of the institute's medical travel program.

Hospital for Special Surgery in New York has purchased a development site for $31 million, where it plans to expand its campus, according to a report by The Commercial Observer.

A new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that obtaining price information for total hip arthroplasty is difficult and that there is a wide variation in the prices quoted.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free health literacy toolkit to help primary care practices implement universal health literacy precautions.

A federal strategy to enhance patient engagement via health IT is described by officials of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in a report in Health Affairs.