Uncategorized

October 2016 Issue of Becker’s Hospital Review On the Cover     110 Physician Leaders of Hospitals and Health SystemsBecker’s Hospital Review is pleased to recognize the following leaders in the 2016 edition of the Physician Leaders of Hospitals and…

This weekly e-newsletter, delivered twice a week, provides guidance and news analysis on quality, patient safety, infection control and accreditation. Each issue is aimed at chief medical officers, chief nursing offices, directors of nursing and other infection control, quality and patient…

CMS has issued two requests for information on Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys for outpatient surgery and hospice care in the Federal Register.

The University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center has unveiled the $10.5 million Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center, according to a Toledo Blade report.

Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, Wyo., is building a $16.1 million cancer center, according to a report by the Wyoming Business Report.

Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Colo., has broken ground on a comprehensive cancer center, according to a Daily Camera report.

Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital announced the opening of its new campus at Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital.

Gibbs Cancer Center in Spartanburg, S.C., is constructing a $2 million research laboratory, according to a Go Upstate report.  

Timing is critical when caring for heart attack patients. National guidelines recommend hospitals treat heart attack patients within 90 minutes of their entering the hospital. Reaching this goal requires that each process in the care pathway for heart attack patients…

Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, N.C., has received approval from the North Carolina Court of Appeals for its plans to build a heart center on the Rex Hospital campus in Raleigh despite objections from WakeMed Health & Hospitals, also based in…