The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group, “a platform for collaboration among healthcare industry leaders and the government for more than a decade to address the most pressing security and resiliency challenges to the healthcare sector,” has published its Health Industry AI Cybersecurity Governance Framework Implementation Guide. HSCC…
A new study evaluates the formation, implementation, and outcomes of the Musculoskeletal Quality Collaborative (MSKQC) across a Massachusetts hospital system. The study, published in The American Journal of Managed Care, states that the MSKQC, established in 2019, “comprises physician, quality, and nursing leaders from 14 hospitals” focused on value-based health…
Academic health system Cooper University Health Care, which serves southern New Jersey, announced plans for a “transformative” $300 million multispecialty outpatient campus in Gloucester Township that it states will “expand access to advanced specialty care services” across the region. The planned five-story, nearly 184,000-square-foot campus will become Cooper’s largest ambulatory…
Ascension announced that it has “received approval” from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to move forward with its acquisition of AMSURG’s ASC business. “This regulatory milestone is a significant step toward our expected official closing in the near future,” stated the nonprofit health system, which anticipates adding more than 250 ASCs…
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…
