ASC development and management company Compass Surgical Partners has partnered with local physicians to develop and launch the Cardiovascular Surgical Institute of Northwest Florida, which began performing cases at its Panama City location last month. The 8,000-square-foot outpatient facility offers interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, and vascular surgery procedures. Compass, referring to…
New Jersey health system RWJBarnabas Health has opened a new OR simulation lab for advanced nurse training and education at the Livingston location of its Institute for Nursing Excellence. The lab, which replicates real-world OR environments, features surgical lighting, equipment, instrumentation, patient mannequins, and audiovisual technology. The simulation environment, which…
Community Health Systems announced this week that its subsidiaries have divested the 186-bed Regional Hospital of Scranton and 122-bed Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., the 369-bed Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital, and “certain related businesses” to affiliates of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Tenor Health Foundation for $33 million cash plus a $15 million…
A newly published randomized clinical trial conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine and colleagues from France examines the question, “How do personalized prehabilitation programs modulate the peripheral immune system in patients undergoing major elective surgery?” In the trial, 58 patients who were scheduled for major elective surgery received either personalized…
Fast Company this week took a deep dive into UCI Health — Irvine (Calif.), which the health system describes as “the nation’s first all-electric powered acute care hospital.” Officially opened last month, UCI Health — Irvine is a seven-story, 350,000-square-foot, 144-bed facility. It completes the construction of a $1.3 billion…
Vanderbilt Health has announced the completion of its acquisition of Tennova Healthcare-Clarksville Hospital and freestanding emergency room Tennova ER-Sango, along with the hospital’s related businesses including physician clinics and outpatient services, from Community Health Systems. Vanderbilt Health had held a 20% minority interest in the operations since 2021, while Community…
Iowa newspaper The Messenger, along with hospital employees and donors, last week got a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing construction of a new surgery center just west of the main entrance of UnityPoint Health Trinity Regional Medical Center in the town of Fort Dodge. The $39.8 million project, which began…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking public input on “strengthening the domestic supply chain for PPE and essential medicines.” The federal agency last week issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking public feedback by March 1 on “potential approaches to strengthen the American-made supply…
Delaware’s hospital oversight board, formed in 2024 to reduce hospital spending in the state, is on the ropes. According to Spotlight Delaware, the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board has “lost one of its principal enforcement levers” after the state’s House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that would…
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN)’s first “neighborhood hospital” in the Poconos, and third overall, has opened in Bartonsville, Pa. Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) – Pocono Creek, like all things LVHN now part of Jefferson Health, offers many things you’d expect in a hospital -- except for a perioperative suite. But…
