Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health tapped Steven Wexner, MD, a pioneer in colorectal surgery, as physician executive director and system chief of colorectal surgery. Dr. Wexner specializes in surgery for rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, rectourethral and rectovaginal fistulas and reoperative…
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The American College of Surgeons has recognized 51 U.S. hospitals for achieving “meritorious” outcomes for surgical patients in 2024. The distinction is part of the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, which requires hospitals to track and report clinical outcomes…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is developing a computer vision model to detect surgical site infections and postoperative wound complications across specialties as part of an initiative to advance AI in the operating room. Mayo Clinic was selected as one of…
Becker’s compiled a list of the highest-rated facilities for hospital outpatient surgery, according to patients. CMS’ survey collected information about patients’ care experience in hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers. The data was collected between October 2023 and September…
Florida has 15 hospitals included on Healthgrades’ Top 50 Best Hospitals for Surgical Care list, the most of any U.S. state. Healthgrades published its 2026 Specialty Excellence Awards Oct. 28. Healthgrades evaluated about 4,500 hospitals across 31 procedures and conditions…
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Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, has finished a $22 million project to upgrade its surgical suite. The intraoperative MRI surgical suite allows neurosurgeons to perform complex procedures — such as tumor removals and ablations for epilepsy —…
Five hospitals across five states have the lowest ratio of unplanned hospital visits after an outpatient surgery at 0.4, according to CMS data. CMS’s Unplanned Hospital Visit dataset includes provider data from 2023 for hospital return days, unplanned readmissions and…
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora has had its immediate jeopardy warning removed following changes to its sterile processing department, The Colorado Sun reported Oct. 16. In July, some elective surgeries were postponed due to insufficient staffing levels within…
Surgeons at Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health performed the nation’s first fully robotic living-donor liver transplant. The surgery involved a woman with rare autoimmune liver disease who received the partial liver tissue from a living donor who had donated a kidney…
HCA Healthcare, a 190-hospital system based in Nashville, Tenn., is leveraging its scale to advance perioperative care, according to an Oct. 10 article from Michael Cuffe, MD. The health system’s vast size enables it to improve patient care within and…