Hospitals in the greater Baltimore area are in a building boom, with more than $2 billion worth of projects started or planned to start this year, according to the Baltimore Sun.
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Saint Joseph Health System in Lexington, Ky., has just opened its new $60 million Women's Hospital, according to a release by Saint Joseph.
California's Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland plans to implement a three-year restructuring plan to try to reverse $80 million in losses over the past four years, according to a report in the San Francisco Business Times.
Two articles in the April issue of Anesthesiology address practice management guidelines and risk factors associated with pain management and postoperative pain, according to a news release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
The healthcare reform package signed into law by President Obama includes several key provisions from the National Pain Care Policy Act, a bill intended to improve pain care, according to a press release from the American Pain Foundation.
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Lee Memorial Health System is creating a co-management relationship with orthopedic surgeons to help run the surgical department at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Fla., according to the Naples News.
Here are five facts and statistics about the worldwide anesthesia drug market, from Kalorama Information's report The World Anesthesia Drug Market.
Much surgery is now being done in the office rather than the hospital or ASC, providing new opportunities for anesthesiologists, according to a report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care and the Society for Ambulatory…
The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants and the Anesthesia Awareness Campaign, Inc., joined forces to update online resources and a printable brochure to educate patients about intraoperative awareness, a rare condition…
Samer Narouze, MD, has been named director of the pain management department at Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, according to a story in the Cuyahoga Falls News-Press.