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…
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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…
Intermountain Health has opened a new clinic in Colorado to reduce wait times for patients in the state who are awaiting a kidney transplant. Patients in Colorado can now complete pre- and post-operative appointments at Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital…
U.S. hospitals have performed more than 200,000 unnecessary vertebroplasty, spinal fusion and laminectomy operations since 2020, costing Medicare nearly $2 billion, according to research from the Lown Institute. Using Medicare fee-for-service claims data from 2021 to 2023 and Medicare Advantage…
Columbus, Ohio-based OhioHealth is launching an $8.5 million renovation of the operating suite at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kenton, Ohio. The project will modernize two operating rooms and aesthetically enhance two other OR suites, one of which will become a…
A customized, team-based strategy significantly reduced unnecessary pre-operative testing for common elective surgeries, according to a new study led by researchers at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine. The intervention, called Right-Sizing Testing Before Elective Surgery, or RITE-Size, was piloted at three…