This week is a week to celebrate the people whose efforts make your ORs hum every day by bolstering efficiency and patient safety: your surgical techs. It’s the third full week of September and, as has been the case since 1984, that means it’s National Surgical Technologists Week, celebrated this…
A lot of change is emanating from Joint Commission, and you can learn all about it during a three-hour Joint Commission Preconference Workshop at Periop Leader Week! On Sunday, Oct. 4, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm ET, you’ll hear straight from the source about Joint Commission’s latest survey and accreditation…
The American Hospital Association’s American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) has released a new resource to “help facilities leaders modernize maintenance practices, improve operational reliability and support safe, uninterrupted patient care.” Health Care Maintenance and Operations: The Facilities Management Handbook, the newest addition to ASHE’s Health Care Facilities Management Handbook…
Locum tenens and healthcare workforce solutions company Medicus Healthcare Solutions has released a report that projects that the U.S. will face a shortfall of 2,020 full-time equivalent (FTE) general surgeons this year, “with the gap expected to grow to 3,170 by 2031.” The company states that its report, “General Surgery…
ABC affiliate WMAR-TV reports that a nurse at Baltimore’s University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been convicted and sentenced for diverting morphine from a 10-year-old patient recovering from open-heart surgery last year. The nurse, who had been assigned to care for the child in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit,…
Nursing site allnurses has published an extensive article about the potential perioperative dangers facing patients who take GLP-1 drugs. The article, “Why GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Force Aborted Surgeries and Airway Crises Under Anesthesia,” begins with a lengthy patient scenario that brings those potential dangers home. “This emergency plays out daily…
Atrium Health announced that it has completed an expansion and reopening of Atrium Health Denver (N.C.) Surgery Center—which it says is the only ASC in Lincoln County, N.C. The expansion of the multispecialty ASC added a dedicated endoscopy suite, three new preoperative rooms and additional clinical space. “This milestone reflects years of planning to…
U.S. News & World Report has announced the 20th annual edition of its Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. Its 2026-2027 rankings were produced in collaboration with research firm RTI International by collecting and analyzing clinical data from 114 children’s hospitals and surveying thousands of pediatric specialists. U.S. News states that hospitals designated…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has provided its comments to CMS on the calendar year 2027 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule. The AHA: “expressed support for proposals regarding the Medicare Shared Savings Program that would expand participation in accountable care, such as establishing guardrails for the Accountable Care Prospective Trend,…
Periop Leader Week is just weeks away. And the time left to save on registration for the event, which will take place October 4 to 7 at the Savannah Convention Center in Savannah, Ga., is just hours away! Individual perioperative leaders are encouraged to register for Periop Leader Week by…
