Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center completed its acquisition of Cornerstone Health Care, a physician-owned, 275-plus-provider, multispecialty practice based in High Point, N.C.
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Ochsner Medical Center (New Orleans). Ochsner Medical Center is a 602-bed acute care hospital. The hospital includes Ochsner Cancer Institute, Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Center and Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute. The hospital is undergoing a significant expansion project. Once finished,…
Campus-wide cost cutting measures at University of California, Berkeley have many worried for the future of a unique medical school program, operated jointed with UC San Francisco, according to The Mercury News.
The nation's largest payer is now publishing patient satisfaction scores for physicians on its website, joining 50 other payers who already do so, according to Medscape.
Aspirus Wausau (Wis.) Hospital. Aspirus Wausau Hospital, a 325-bed facility, is staffed by 350 physicians in 35 specialties. Tens of thousands of patients visit the hospital each year, which serves patients in 14 counties across Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.…
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Aspen (Colo.) Valley Hospital. Aspen Valley Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital and a Level III trauma center. It was founded in 1889 as Citizen’s Hospital Committee of Pitkin County to care for single, working men employed in dangerous…
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has 288 beds, handled 10,997 admissions and hosted 4,926 inpatient and 13,342 outpatient surgeries in the last year reported. In fiscal year…
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has 288 beds, handled 10,997 admissions and hosted 4,926 inpatient and 13,342 outpatient surgeries in the last year reported. In fiscal year…
Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University have developed a robotic surgical system capable of adjusting to the specific needs of soft tissue to execute precise and consistent suturing.
The Joint Commission recently announced a lift to its ban on secure texting among clinicians. This is big news for healthcare as the earlier ban prohibited texting between providers due to security concerns.