Periop Pulse 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…
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…
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…
The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center has become the country’s first VA medical center recognized by the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Quality Verification Program (QVP). The ACS QVP provides a standardized method for “establishing, measuring, and improving a hospital’s quality infrastructure across all surgical…
Matt Parr of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit that researches the impact of private equity (PE) investment in health care and other essential services, last week published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times that blames PE for “dismantling” three PE-owned Chicagoland hospitals, and calls for the state of…
University of Iowa (UI) Health Care has commemorated the one-year anniversary of the opening of its orthopedics-focused North Liberty, Iowa, campus. In addition to orthopedic care and surgical services, the facility also provides physical therapy and rehabilitation, an emergency department, a full-service pharmacy, diagnostic imaging, and lab services. Over its…
Arkansas news organization Talk Business & Politics (TB&P) reports that a group of state legislators, seeking to “better understand and address constituent concerns” about the future of Baptist Health’s Fort Smith hospital, met with Baptist Health leadership last week for a “listening session” to discuss the situation. State Rep. Ryan…
