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The Federation of State Medical Boards House of Delegates adopted new policy guidelines on the appropriate use of social media and social networking sites by physicians.
Chris Van Gorder serves as president and CEO of Scripps Health in San Diego. He was integral to Scripps' turnaround in 2000 and is currently leading the system through a different type of turnaround — a growth and expansion plan…
Covenant Health is celebrating the progress made on construction of Roane Medical Center's replacement facility in Harriman, Tenn., according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The following hospitals obtained scores of more than 90 percent on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems rating for "Percent of patients who reported that their room and bathroom were 'always' clean."
Research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology finds a strong link between healthcare-associated infections and patient readmission after an initial hospital stay.
The National Quality Forum Board of Directors has endorsed an additional nine quality measures on surgical care performed in hospitals and in outpatient facilities.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Public Health Counsel codified a series of Determination of Need guidelines for ambulatory surgery centers in the commonwealth earlier this month, effectively prohibiting the expansion of ambulatory surgery centers, according to a…
HCA has reported its first quarter 2012 results and reports that outpatient volumes saw an increase over the same quarter last year, according to a Market Watch report.
Gastroenterologist Magdalena Averhoff, MD, associate chief medical officer of Jackson South Community Hospital in Miami, has been appointed to the Florida Board of Medicine, according to a South Florida Hospital News report.