At Lee Health (Fort Myers, Fla.), we operate across four hospital campuses and four surgery centers. When including our General Surgery ASC in that mix, we perform more than 48,000 surgeries each year. Like many health systems, we were seeing…
Three years ago, Los Angeles-based Keck Medical Center of USC became the first academic medical center to fully discontinue using nitrous oxide in its operating room, and it has never looked back. Nitrous oxide, more commonly known as laughing gas,…
Past research has found 3 in 5 surgical instruments accidentally fall during emergency orthopedic procedures, but the healthcare industry lacks guidelines on managing this contamination risk, according to researchers at Duke University Health System in Durham, N.C. The researchers intentionally…
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital is the second hospital in the world to receive designation as a Center of Excellence in Women’s Integrated Surgical Health by Surgical Review Corp. The accreditation involves a comprehensive, data-driven evaluation that measures a hospital and…
Silver City, N.M.-based Gila Regional Medical Center named Erin Winters operating room director, National Today reported March 8. Ms. Winters will begin her role at the county-owned hospital March 9. She helped open a surgical center in the Navajo Nation,…
The use of desflurane, a common anesthetic, has been on the decline in recent years as healthcare institutions have begun to sunset it in response to environmental concerns, Inside Climate News reported Jan. 5. Here are 10 things to know…
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…
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…
