San Juan Regional Medical Center, a 198-bed community hospital in Farmington, N.M., that serves the Four Corners region where Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico meet, strives to provide the members of its sprawling rural community with access to the surgical services they deserve. But it faced a critical challenge.…
NYU Langone Health announced that it plans to build an academic medical center in the Long Island hamlet of Melville, part of the Town of Huntington, N.Y., near the border of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The medical center’s campus will include a hospital with more than 500 inpatient beds, 70…
Global consulting firm AlixPartners has released its inaugural U.S. Healthcare & Life Sciences Distress Test Survey of 200 U.S.-based operators, investors, and advisors. The survey report, available for free viewing here, “digs into what’s behind this elevated distress and, more importantly, how industry leaders are responding.” While the numbers won’t…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) announced that Todd Currier, CASC, CEO and administrator of Bend (Ore.) Surgery Center, has been elected as its new board president. ASCA, which represents more than 6,500 Medicare-certified ASCs across the U.S., stated that Mr. Currier received unanimous support from the ASCA board and…
“Can you have outpatient brain surgery in an ambulatory surgery center?” That’s the question neurosurgeon Richard Menger, MD, MPA, tackles in an article for Forbes that encourages current and future patients not to dismiss the idea outright. Dr. Menger, who is also a political scientist, is vice chair of neurosurgery,…
Hip fracture surgery delays put vulnerable seniors at risk, according to a new article by a Canadian public health expert published in Hospital News. The article, written by Jason M. Sutherland, PhD, MSc, BA, professor of health services and policy and director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy…
Maryland has become the 21st U.S. state to require the use of surgical smoke evacuation systems in its ORs. On May 26, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed House Bill 1087 into law. It goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2028. The law requires all healthcare facilities in Maryland that perform surgical procedures…
A new study from researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery’s Lerner Children’s Pavilion describes a mentorship model for robotic-assisted navigation in pediatric spinal fusion surgery. Noting that robotic-assisted navigation systems improve pedicle screw placement accuracy while acknowledging a significant learning curve, the team implemented a structured mentorship model that paired…
Axios reports that the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul wage levels for visa holders is impacting hospitals that rely heavily on foreign-born staff. It reports that the U.S. Department of Labor is focused on changing how it calculates “fair minimum pay” for workers on visas such as H-1Bs and green card sponsorship jobs. Axios…
According to Triangle Business Journal (link; subscription required), North Carolina lawmakers are advancing legislation to “roll back” parts of the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) law. Senate Bill 1040 (read the full text here) cleared the N.C. Senate Health Committee earlier this month and now heads to the Senate Appropriations/Base…
