Last week saw numerous mainstream media accounts of the troubles facing specific rural hospitals and the resulting negative impacts on the small communities they serve. Williamston, N.C. NPR affiliate WUNC in Chapel Hill, N.C., focused on the small town of Williamston, N.C., the seat of Martin County, which has approximately 22,000…
Sage Memorial Hospital (SMH), which serves the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Ariz., has reopened its surgical services department for the first time in nearly two decades. On Jan. 21, it performed a colonoscopy and endoscopy, culminating an historic return for the hospital’s general surgery department, which closed in 2006 due…
Is your facility curious about robotically assisted mitral valve repair? Cleveland Clinic, which has now performed more than 2,600 of these operations, has plenty to share with you about it. And it claims that its safety and efficacy are “comparable” to open repair. Cardiothoracic surgeon Per Wierup, MD, PhD, whom Cleveland…
A study by investigators at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha suggests that by embedding a standardized glucose management protocol into the electronic health record (EHR), perioperative teams can better control the blood sugar levels of diabetic patients. The study, published in Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology,…
According to an article by non-profit news outlet San Antonio Report, the Board of Managers of University Health, a locally owned and operated health system serving San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas, has voted to enter a $50 million deal to acquire two medical towers next to a shuttered CHRISTUS…
A new study by researchers at Corewell Health East William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., posed this question: “What are the public’s attitudes toward recent U.S. state laws permitting internationally trained surgeons to practice without completing U.S.-based residency training?” The study, published in JAMA Surgery, found that while the…
Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tenn., announced Tuesday that a subsidiary entered a definitive agreement to sell “substantially all” of the assets of the 180-bed Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville, Ala., along with its associated outpatient centers and practices, to Huntsville Hospital Health System (HH Health) for $450 million, “subject to…
Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus is now providing patients the ability to schedule certain elective surgeries and procedures on Saturdays. Specialties that currently qualify are urology, plastic surgery, head and neck, orthopedics and spine, with the potential for additional specialties to be added moving forward. The initiative by Cleveland Clinic to…
Patient safety organization ECRI has announced its 18th annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report. Without further ado, here’s the list, with almost all of the top 10 impacting perioperative care to varying degrees: Misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots in healthcare Unpreparedness for a “digital darkness” event, or a…
Sutter Health last week broke ground on its new Advanced Cancer Center and Care Complex in Modesto, Calif. The project, estimated to cost $380 million, is part of the not-for-profit health system’s multi-year commitment to expand health care services and enhance patient access to high-quality outpatient and specialty care for…
