Canyon Vista Medical Center (CVMC) reports that it has been “steadily bringing four previously offline operating rooms back into service.” Two of its ORs are now “fully operational, with additional capacity coming online in the months ahead,” states the 100-bed acute care hospital in Sierra Vista, Ariz. “This phased expansion…
A prominent orthopedic surgeon has leveraged the platform of mass media outlet Fortune to call for increased transparency among his peers and their institutions to enable patients to make more informed decisions about whom they will allow to operate on them. Mathias Bostrom, MD, associate surgeon-in-chief and director of quality and…
EP Lab Digest, a media outlet for electrophysiology (EP) professionals, has published a Q&A with Wilber Su, MD, FACC, FHRS, director of heart rhythm services at Banner-University Medical Center and professor of medicine at the University of Arizona, that discusses a panel he is moderating at the upcoming Heart Rhythm…
Last week we reported that the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s (ASCA’s) Clinical & Operational Benchmarking Survey has been redesigned and relaunched as the new ASCA Benchmarking survey, which is ready for Q1 data submissions right now. Now you can hear more about the “total remaking” of the survey straight from…
CPIhealth (CPI), an interventional pain management platform, has acquired Midwest Interventional Spine Specialists (M.I.S.S.) and Serenity Surgical Center. CPI says the move enables it to expand its provision of “advanced pain treatments and comprehensive care” to northwest Indiana and nearby Chicago suburbs in Illinois. The partnership adds two clinics and…
Anesthesiologist Andrew Fisher, MD, assistant professor at Medical University of South Carolina, last week published a thoughtful article, “The Perioperative AI Reality Check: Why Hospital Tech Fails Without Clinician Co-Design.” The opinion piece in healthcare technology news publication HIT Consultant views “AI-powered solutions” for perioperative care through the same lens…
The Children’s Hospital Association has shared a compelling story about Golisano Children’s Hospital at UK in Lexington, Ky., which integrated a child life specialist into its perioperative team. While the expectation was that the integration of the specialist would help improve the patient experience, it also changed clinical practice by…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) expressed its opposition to proposed legislation in Michigan that it says would be “catastrophic” to the state’s ASCs if enacted. The Michigan Health & Hospital Association also expressed its opposition to the bill from the perspective of hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). Michigan HB 5770, introduced last…
The Lund Report, an independent outlet for health news in Oregon and southwest Washington reported on an invite-only session conducted last week where Salem Health and Santiam Hospital & Clinics leaders answered questions from nearly 200 local business, nonprofit and government leaders about their proposed merger. “The future of health care…
An opinion piece published in the journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open focuses on maximizing documentation efficiency and improving reimbursement in acute care surgery (ACS). The article, written by five ACS surgeons, notes that they and their peers are “increasingly asked to navigate complex documentation and reimbursement systems” even…
