Would you like to address your peers in the perioperative leadership community? Have you solved a problem, struggled with a challenge, identified a trend, felt a long-running frustration you can’t contain for much longer? Have you accomplished something great, and want to tell the industry about it? Have you always…
Periop Leader Week, which for the first 39 years of its existence was the OR Manager Conference, will take place this Oct. 4 to 7 in Savannah, Ga. If you’ve already registered for the event, thank you! We can’t wait to see you there! If you haven’t, please kindly allow…
Providence, which runs 51 hospitals, 1,014 clinics and a range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington, announced that its Providence Health Plan “will transition out of most of its health insurance lines of business beginning in 2027,” including individual and family…
What does your chief operating officer (COO) think of the state of perioperative services at your organization? How should they think about it? A new white paper provides some rich insight for COOs on how to drive perioperative operational improvements that will also bolster financial performance. For perioperative leaders, it…
Surgeon recruitment and retention is already difficult for many facilities. According to a new study published as an article in press in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, that difficulty will likely continue without effective interventions to stem the tide of surgeon attrition. The retrospective longitudinal cohort study…
Insurance Business reports that Allstate has sued Florida Orthopedics and Neurosurgery, which does business as University Orthopedic Care, along with its two owners, “under federal racketeering law, accusing it of running a kickback-driven billing scheme that cost the insurer millions.” In the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the…
Last week, Florida non-profit health system Lee Health held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the construction of a 60,000-square-foot pediatric ASC in Fort Myers. This week it held another, this time for Lee Health at Veterans Parkway, a 100,000-square-foot “ambulatory clinic” in Cape Coral that it states will deliver “comprehensive”…
Amid the consistent migration of surgical cases from inpatient hospitals to outpatient settings, one North Carolina medical center is, at least temporarily, reversing the tide. Local media outlet CityView reports that Cape Fear Valley Health is seeking permission from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has announced that the new clinical outcomes report from its National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) now provides hospitals risk-adjusted, benchmarked data for emergency general surgery for the first time, in the interest of advancing “data-driven quality improvement in one of the most complex…
On April 21, Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, Mo., announced it had voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and had secured a partner for a sale of the facility. It stated that the move was intended to stabilize its financial position while ensuring uninterrupted patient…
