South Hampton Community Hospital (SHCH) is pleased to announce its integration of a prominent Dallas Cardiovascular Medical Practice, Comprehensive Cardiac and Vascular Interventional Group or CCVIG, notably Mark Jenkins, M.D., Tu Le M.D., and Carl Horton, M.D.. The addition of CCVIG means that...
Joe Farrington-Douglas, senior policy manager at the NHS Confederation, comments on the Government's announcement that it will not be implementing free hospital car parking across England...
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Registered nurses from Children's Hospital Oakland, voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize their nurse negotiators to call a three-day strike if necessary to protest ongoing management efforts to sharply reduce healthcare coverage for nurses and their families. No date has been set for...
Language Line Services, the leading provider of language-based solutions and the number one provider of over-the-phone interpreting services for the healthcare industry, announced a program of support, instructional materials and consultations to help ensure compliance for hospitals as they gear...
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the expansion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Rural Community Hospital demonstration program, through the Affordable Care Act. Up to 20 small rural hospitals in selected states will be eligible for enhanced reimbursement for...
Thanks to an innovative electronic data exchange project launched today, emergency physicians at Inova Alexandria Hospital will have access to critical medication histories within minutes of a patient's arrival. This access will be made possible through MEDS-ED Link, a project of the Northern...
The Dallas Morning News reports on the local hospital advertising market. "The weak economy has siphoned money from advertising budgets in most major industries, but local hospital advertising has remained steady, thanks to one company. Texas Health Resources, the largest hospital system in...
Stacey Berner, M.D., medical director of the Hand Center at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, MD, has become the first surgeon in America to perform a revolutionary new robotic hand surgery. Berner utilized the Da Vinci Surgical System to perform a ultra precise surgery. This system is an...
The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center opened the country's most advanced hybrid, robotic operating room. The new suite integrates advanced robotics, imaging and navigation with surgery to offer patients the least invasive and safest surgical and interventional treatments for...
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) and All Children's Hospital & Health System (ACH) of St. Petersburg, Fla., have signed a letter of intent to integrate. After appropriate due diligence is completed sometime later this year, ACH will join the Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS) as a fully integrated...
Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), a leading provider of clinical information and medication delivery technologies, announced a study showing how the TheraDoc(TM) clinical surveillance system helped clinicians at Memorial Hospital Miramar reduce catheter-related infections, which correlated with an...
Hey, one of my female friends is spending some time in hospital after some major surgery. I want to do something for her boredom as she is spending day after day in a hospital bed. I know she likes to read and I have seen her reading books by; Sophie Kinsella, Melissa Nathan, Tess Gerristen. But...
Representatives from Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and childhood cancer patients will together take part in the Hope on Wheels (TM) Handprint Ceremony. They will dip their hands in fingerpaint and apply colorful handprints to a white Hyundai Santa Fe. The car, which is covered in children's...
The Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, part of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, recently upgraded its Nuclear Medicine department with the installation of a Symbia® S SPECT from Siemens Healthcare. The hospital has also installed Europe's first Symbia.net™ Clinical Workflow Server, a...
Is this legal, what is next caffeine? I can understand due to the fact that it is a childrens hosp they dont want them exposed to the smell from clothing, but who has the right to tell you that you cannot do something legal on your own time. This calls for a major class action suit.