A subsidiary of Community Health Systems last week signed a definitive agreement to sell “substantially all of the assets” of four Northwest Health hospitals in Arkansas, along with their associated outpatient centers and practices, to Freeman Health System of Joplin, Mo., for $112 million. The hospitals are: 128-bed Northwest Medical…
Is a hybrid operating room an effective marketing tool? For one health system, it garnered coverage on local TV news. KSAT-TV in San Antonio last week reported that Baptist Health System’s hybrid OR “saved an 82-year-old patient’s life” after doctors found an aneurysm. The patient, facing major surgery for an…
If you’re focused on making your ORs more efficient – and who among perioperative leaders isn’t? – we encourage you to attend next Monday’ s free webinar, “Driving Efficiency in Surgery with Advance Case Management.” Led by orthopedic surgeon Robert B.(RB) Jones, MD, of Mercy Springfield and Nate Edgington, DBH,…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has released what it calls the first national framework that outlines measurable workplace standards for surgeons with the publication of “Developing Specialty-Specific Workplace Standards for Surgeons: A Framework to Support Sustainable Surgical Careers” in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. ACS states…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) announced that it has been awarded a grant of approximately $200,000 from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation, to advance age-friendly care in outpatient specialty and subspecialty medicine. The funding is part of an effort to…
Credentialing of providers is a challenge for many surgical facilities. If you’ve listened to Credentialing Chronicles, the podcast co-hosted by Shannen Aguayo, founder and CEO of Advanced Quality Compliance, and Nyleen Flores, BA, FMSP, CPMSM, CPCS, CPCO, CASC, administrator at Lake Oconee Orthopedics in Greensboro, Ga. (and member of our…
KVVU-TV in Las Vegas reports a confirmation from the CEO of Boulder City Hospital in Nevada that the facility will lay off approximately 70 employees and “end several services, including stays longer than 24 hours, as it transitions from a critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital.” That transition will…
A systematic review and meta-analysis led by Mayo Clinic researchers of sex-based differences in perioperative hypersensitivity (POH) has been published by the peer-reviewed medical journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. POH, the researchers state, is a rare, immediate hypersensitivity reaction that, in its more severe form as perioperative anaphylaxis, carries…
A free clinical report published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) examines the role that pediatricians should play in evaluating and preparing patients and families for anesthesia and surgery. It focuses on two major areas of concern. The first is preparation and optimization of the…
Guthrie, a not-for-profit, integrated health care system that operates in the states of New York and Pennsylvania, last week opened the Guthrie Broome Orthopedic and Spine Surgery Center in Johnson City, N.Y. The purpose-built center, which Guthrie has nicknamed “G-BOSS,” opened after completing 28 surgeries since its soft launch earlier…
