The American College of Surgeons (ACS) announced that new research to be presented at its Clinical Congress 2026 will show that underweight patients “face 92% increased odds of death after emergency general surgery.” The study drew on ACS’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) database, which covers more than…
Penn Medicine, Independence Blue Cross, and Regent Surgical have announced what the parties call a “first-of-its-kind strategic partnership” designed to “rapidly expand access to high-quality outpatient surgical care” across the Philadelphia region. The partners state that they will collaborate through a yet-unnamed new company to “support the creation” of “at…
University of Rochester Medicine’s Highland Hospital has opened a 26-bed Short-Stay Post-Operative Unit to provide specialized care and monitoring for patients expected to be discharged within 24 hours. The unit, located on the fourth floor of Highland’s Southeast Tower, offers a “focused setting for post-surgical care,” stated the health system.…
Bioengineer.org has analyzed a new review published in Holistic Integrative Oncology that examines a troubling paradox: the physical trauma of curative cancer surgeries may temporarily create conditions that enable the spread of any tumor cells that are left behind by suppressing the immune system’s ability to hunt them down. The…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has requested that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) make healthcare workers exempt from its proposed H-1B visa fee of $103,265 for petitions subject to statutory caps. In its letter to DHS on the proposal, the AHA expressed concern that the fee would hinder the…
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…
