A Utah Senate committee has endorsed a bill that would require all healthcare facilities to report infection rates to the state's Department of Health, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report.
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NYU Langone Medical Center has released a 62-page report on quality and patient safety efforts in its orthopedics department.
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This past September, Weiss Memorial Hospital brought in the East Coast-based Jeffrey Steinberg, MD, to lead the Chicago-based facility. Dr. Steinberg, a urological surgeon, came to Weiss Memorial — which is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems — from…
McLeod Loris (S.C.) Healthcare will lay off 48 works as part of a restructuring and financial pressure, according to a Sun News report.
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched the EHR Accessibility Module Challenge, according to a Health IT Buzz report.
Both Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, and Peninsula Cancer Center in Poulsbo, Wash., have proposed building a cancer treatment center in the central Kenai Peninsula in Alaska — an area they say needs only one such facility — but…