Credentialing of providers is a challenge for many surgical facilities. If you’ve listened to Credentialing Chronicles, the podcast co-hosted by Shannen Aguayo, founder and CEO of Advanced Quality Compliance, and Nyleen Flores, BA, FMSP, CPMSM, CPCS, CPCO, CASC, administrator at Lake Oconee Orthopedics in Greensboro, Ga. (and member of our…
KVVU-TV in Las Vegas reports a confirmation from the CEO of Boulder City Hospital in Nevada that the facility will lay off approximately 70 employees and “end several services, including stays longer than 24 hours, as it transitions from a critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital.” That transition will…
A systematic review and meta-analysis led by Mayo Clinic researchers of sex-based differences in perioperative hypersensitivity (POH) has been published by the peer-reviewed medical journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. POH, the researchers state, is a rare, immediate hypersensitivity reaction that, in its more severe form as perioperative anaphylaxis, carries…
A free clinical report published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) examines the role that pediatricians should play in evaluating and preparing patients and families for anesthesia and surgery. It focuses on two major areas of concern. The first is preparation and optimization of the…
Guthrie, a not-for-profit, integrated health care system that operates in the states of New York and Pennsylvania, last week opened the Guthrie Broome Orthopedic and Spine Surgery Center in Johnson City, N.Y. The purpose-built center, which Guthrie has nicknamed “G-BOSS,” opened after completing 28 surgeries since its soft launch earlier…
Cardiovascular ASCs are currently the shiny new object in the world of outpatient surgery, picking up where total joints left off. But safely opening and operating a cardiovascular ASC, in many ways, can make opening and operating a total joints service line look like child’s play. For ASC leaders evaluating…
We’re laser-focused on delivering a relevant lineup of ASC-specific session topics, speakers, panelists, coach-led bootcamps, peer-to-peer roundtables and networking opportunities for the inaugural Periop Leader Week, to be held Oct. 4 to 7 in Savannah, Ga. Our mission is to provide compelling, must-see content that makes Periop Leader Week the…
Several hospitals announced closures or severe cutbacks last week. St. Elizabeth Healthcare Dearborn Hospital ending overnight surgeries, closing ICU WXIX-TV reports that St. Elizabeth Healthcare Dearborn Hospital in Lawrenceburg, Ind., confirmed it will close its ICU and reduce perioperative services, including ending overnight surgeries, by the middle of May. Chief Nursing…
Wake Tech, North Carolina’s largest community college, last week lifted the final beam on what it says will be one of the nation’s “largest and most comprehensive simulation hospitals.” Wake Tech said the Perry Family Simulation Hospital, scheduled to open on its Perry Health Sciences Campus in Raleigh in fall…
CBC News in Canada published a report that portable weapon detectors powered by artificial intelligence (AI) were placed into service last week by Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney, Nova Scotia, to help Nova Scotia Health track potentially dangerous incidents. The provincial government began installing AI-powered weapon detectors, which it…
