Periop Pulse 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…
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…
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…
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…
PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA), a 501(c)(3) “nonprofit, nonpartisan organization focused on ushering in systemwide healthcare price transparency,” has released its latest Hospital Price Transparency Report, which finds 51% of the 2,000 hospitals it reviewed “are still failing to comply with the federal rule that went into effect more than five years ago…
Philanthropist Tom Golisano has announced a $225 million investment in six children’s hospitals, which will join 15 other facilities that are already in “the nationwide network of the Golisano Children’s Alliance.” The goal is to bring 40 children’s hospitals into the alliance. The six new hospitals in the Alliance are:…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), has awarded 132 hospitals a total of nearly $25 million through the Rural Hospital Provider Assistance Program. The program is designed to provide direct financial assistance to help “eligible small rural hospitals” avoid…
