AI may prove consequential “in the distributed, high-volume world of outpatient care, because it changes not only how we draw these buildings but how they perform.” So writes Charles Michelson, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, president of Saltz Michelson Architects, in an article for South Florida Hospital News & Healthcare Report.…
For the 10th straight year, Vanderbilt Health surgeons and staff spent a day providing free surgical care to qualifying uninsured and underinsured Middle Tennesseans. Vanderbilt Health’s Orthopaedics Outreach Day, which has occurred every year since 2017, finds its surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and medical students volunteering to provide free surgical care.…
A new article in press in The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery examines the “changing dynamics of ankle fracture care across emergency, inpatient, and ambulatory settings.” Researchers from Medical College of Georgia at Augusta (Ga.) University, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at…
A training program administered by the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) at Augusta University is “bringing advanced trauma skills directly to emergency room staff who need them most.” For the last year, a team of MCG physicians “has successfully piloted a state-funded portable simulation training course, called Rural Interactive Trauma…
WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center (FMC) has completed its brand-new surgical services unit. Set to open on Oct. 19, FMC’s four new operating rooms and new sterile processing suite are the result of an investment of more than $27 million. “Today marks far more than the opening of four new…
This week is a week to celebrate the people whose efforts make your ORs hum every day by bolstering efficiency and patient safety: your surgical techs. It’s the third full week of September and, as has been the case since 1984, that means it’s National Surgical Technologists Week, celebrated this…
A lot of change is emanating from Joint Commission, and you can learn all about it during a three-hour Joint Commission Preconference Workshop at Periop Leader Week! On Sunday, Oct. 4, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm ET, you’ll hear straight from the source about Joint Commission’s latest survey and accreditation…
The American Hospital Association’s American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) has released a new resource to “help facilities leaders modernize maintenance practices, improve operational reliability and support safe, uninterrupted patient care.” Health Care Maintenance and Operations: The Facilities Management Handbook, the newest addition to ASHE’s Health Care Facilities Management Handbook…
Locum tenens and healthcare workforce solutions company Medicus Healthcare Solutions has released a report that projects that the U.S. will face a shortfall of 2,020 full-time equivalent (FTE) general surgeons this year, “with the gap expected to grow to 3,170 by 2031.” The company states that its report, “General Surgery…
ABC affiliate WMAR-TV reports that a nurse at Baltimore’s University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been convicted and sentenced for diverting morphine from a 10-year-old patient recovering from open-heart surgery last year. The nurse, who had been assigned to care for the child in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit,…
