New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced that the next major phase of a $1.1 billion investment to modernize facilities at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University (SUNY Downstate) Hospital in Brooklyn is moving forward with the approval of a construction contract to demolish, clear…
U.S. News & World Report will publish its third annual Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers ratings on Mar. 17, with some refinements to its methodology. The program seeks to identify high-performing ASCs for consumers across the specialties of Colonoscopy & Endoscopy, Orthopedics & Spine, Urology, and Ophthalmology. The outlet says that…
What do hospital leaders actually want from staffing firms? A leader and former RN at one of those staffing firms put herself in your shoes and published an article on Staffing Industry Analysis that she believes answers that question. Acknowledging that the relationship between hospital leaders and staffing partners “often feels…
If you suspect patients who have undergone orthopedics and other procedures at your facility aren’t doing their postoperative physical therapy (PT) homework as much as they should be, a new survey by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center not only will confirm those suspicions but will put an eye-popping…
An article published in STAT this week asks this simple but devastating question: “When IV opioids are in short supply at the hospital, who gets pain relief?” “When there is not enough pain medicine to go around, who gets it? The teenager in agony after a crushed leg, or the…
Seattle-based publication MyNorthwest reported yesterday that, after six years of work, MultiCare will welcome its first patients to the new Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Wash., on May 16. It’s a massive upgrade, reports MyNorthwest, as the existing iteration of the children’s hospital has shared space with MultiCare Tacoma…
Spokane, Wash., newspaper The Spokesman-Review reports of a difficult situation for management of Newport (Wash.) Hospital. The facility, located along the border with Idaho, is “feeling the pinch from an influx of people coming from outside Washington who, under state law, can receive free health care there.” “Our margins are already…
ORA Orthopedics last week relocated its Bettendorf, Iowa, orthopedic clinic and outpatient surgery center to a new $50 million facility in the same town. ORA’s medical, outpatient surgery and physical therapy facilities have migrated to a 113,000-square-foot clinic, surgery center and administrative headquarters next to the town’s TBK Bank Sports Complex.…
University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) on Monday announced it has opened Colony Park North, an approximately 131,000-square-foot campus in Ridgeland, Miss., that includes a medical office building, ambulatory surgery facility, advanced imaging services and an education space, as well as numerous clinics that focus on various surgical specialties. In…
The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals AFT Local 5017, a union representing more than 6,000 nurses and health professionals in Oregon and Southwest Washington, has issued a “formal declaration” to Kaiser Permanente Northwest President Wendy Watson expressing “no confidence” in Director of Nursing Misty Weaver, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, ST,…
