July 16A year ago, Memorial Central Hospital’s trauma care program appeared to be in need of some critical care itself.Following a site visit in July 2009, the American College of Surgeons determined that Memorial Health System’s flagship hospital downtown did not merit re-verification as a Level II trauma center because its neurosurgery program did not [...]
July 04BEHOLD COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING aka the CT or CAT scan a technology so revolutionary that it helped earn its inventors a Nobel Prize in 1979.The CT scan does what conventional X-ray technology can’t do: create a 3-D image to provide doctors with a more detailed picture of problems inside the body, from [...]
Jun. 4LIMA Lima Memorial Health System opened the doors on a new nursery Thursday, and a new relationship to go with it.The hospital cut the ribbon on its new four-bed, $400,000 Level II Neonatal Nursery while announcing a new collaboration with Toledo Children’s Hospital. The Level II designation will allow the hospital to provide [...]
May 20The Colorado Department of Health is investigating Memorial Health System for using a Taser to subdue a patient earlier this year.A statement from the hospital says it "treated a homicidal patient in the Emergency Department who became physically violent and threatened our staff…. A Taser was used on this combative patient in compliance with [...]
BRENTWOOD, Tenn.(BUSINESS WIRE) The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has announced that 10 Cogent Healthcare Physician Executives are among the more than 150 hospitalists nationwide who have earned the first-ever Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine [...]
Mar. 17The wealthy are likely to have access to health insurance or can pay for their own coverage. The poor can find relief through government programs like Medicaid.It’s America’s middle class that’s falling through the cracks faster than any other group, according to a report released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonpartisan [...]
Spurred by economic stimulus incentives and a desire to implement an advanced electronic health record (EHR), Citrus Memorial Health System has chosen to upgrade its hospital information system (HIS) with McKesson’s Paragon community HIS. As part of the agreement, McKesson will remotely host the new solution for the Inverness, Fla., hospital.The Paragon HIS will be [...]
Hospitals and Health Networks Use Accellion to Securely Share Personal Health Information PALO ALTO, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE) With stricter HIPAA privacy regulations introduced this week, it is more important than [...]
Paragon community hospital information system will be remotely hosted by McKesson ATLANTA(BUSINESS WIRE) Spurred by economic stimulus incentives and a desire to implement an advanced electronic [...]
Jan. 5LIMA You have a heart condition. You’re pregnant. Your child has asthma. You want a quiet stay while in the hospital.Which hospital is best for you? The Ohio Department of Health is trying to help in the decision making. It launched an Ohio Hospital Care Web site, allowing people to make side-by-side comparisons [...]
