The U.S. Department of War’s Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) published a story last week about the sterile processing department (SPD) at Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) that’s a mix of lighthearted and, to anyone who works in perioperative services, alarming. It’s about how NHB’s SPD staff members held a…
While we love all nurses, perioperative nurses obviously are at the core of the Periop Leader Network community. So we wanted to share all of the resources that the Association for periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is offering to help you and your pre-op, intraop and post-op nurses and nurse leaders…
New Jersey’s RWJBarnabas Health Medical Group has relocated several “key practices” into a “newly designed, state-of-the-art medical suite” on the second floor of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Rahway. The practices are cardiology, general surgery and specialized pulmonary care, with primary care on the way. It says the move…
Two ASCs publicly reported data security incidents over the last week. Covenant Health’s Advanced Family Surgery Center, formally known as Surgery Center of Oak Ridge (Tenn.), LLC, stated that “on or around November 26, 2025,” it “became aware of a network intrusion that affected a limited number of systems” and…
Georgia TV stations WRDW and WAGT report that, according to Defense Health Agency (DHA) Director Vice Adm. Darin K. Via, the U.S. Department of War intends to “transition” Eisenhower Army Medical Center (AMC) at Fort Gordon, Ga., to an Ambulatory Care Center. The transition would include “the permanent closure of inpatient…
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre and “other international and U.S. partners,” has released guidance for organizations on adopting agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The guidance, titled “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services,” outlines “key security challenges…
A narrative review article published this week in ACOS General Surgery zeroes in on frailty as a surgical vital sign, with discussion of risk stratification and outcomes for these patients in general surgery. The authors, largely from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, note that although frailty has…
Community members, project partners, local leaders, and media were on hand as Slocum Orthopedics hosted a public Girder Signing event over the weekend at the construction site of what will become its new orthopedics ASC in Eugene, Ore. “The event marks an important construction milestone for the new physician-owned orthopedic surgery…
The ASC Quality Collaboration (ASCQC), an independent, nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to advancing patient safety and quality of care delivery in ASCs, has announced that its ASC Safety & Quality Assessment is now open for its second year. Nearly 400 ASCs participated in the 2025 assessment, and ASCQC hopes even more…
According to numerous published reports out of the Constitution State, University of Connecticut Health Center has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Bristol Health to take over Bristol Hospital and make it part of the UConn Health Community Network. CT Mirror reports that the deal is on track to…
