Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has opened a bronchoscopy laboratory at Vanderbilt University Hospital, also in Nashville. The new space more than doubles the hospital’s capacity to provide interventional pulmonary care, according to an Oct. 26 news release from…
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Block utilization can provide useful directional insight, but on its own, it can mask unused time, excess allocation and barriers to OR access. At an executive roundtable sponsored by LeanTaaS at Becker’s 2026 Perioperative Summit, three health system executives described…
OU Health, the academic health system in Oklahoma City that operates the city’s only Level I trauma center, created an enterprise-wide OR operating system. It deployed the platform in stages but rolled out each capability broadly rather than testing it…
Hospitals rarely lack operating room data. What they lack is data that arrives in time to act on, in the hands of the surgeons and schedulers who make daily decisions, and a governance structure that outlasts the consultants who built…
The surgical workforce is facing shortages, with fewer residency applicants wanting to work in rural communities, as surgery outcomes worsen for patients in rural counties who already face higher rates of smoking, obesity, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Over the past…
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In the U.S., general surgery is the specialty with the most practitioners while transplant surgery has the fewest, according to the American College of Surgeons. The ACS used data from the 2025 National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, CMS Provider…
WVU Medicine Fairmont (W.Va.) Medical Center completed its more than $27 million surgical services unit. The new unit, set to open Oct. 19, includes four new operating rooms and a new sterile processing suite, according to a Sept. 22 system…
Four hospitals across three states have the lowest ratio of unplanned hospital visits after an outpatient surgery at 0.6, according to CMS data. CMS’ Unplanned Hospital Visit dataset includes provider data from 2024 for hospital return days, unplanned readmissions and…
Portales-based Roosevelt General Hospital opened three new operating rooms and added four specialties, NewsChannel 10 reported July 20. Since 2024, the hospital has added orthopedics, bariatric surgery, dermatology and cardiology services, thanks to a New Mexico bill that provides financial…
Nashua, N.H.-based Southern New Hampshire Health named Robert Catania, MD, chief surgical officer. Dr. Catania will work closely with the executive director of surgical and procedural services to oversee the operations of surgical services across multiple specialty practices and Southern…