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Anesthesia Management: Only 6% of Hospitals Well Prepared for Ebola, Poll Finds

I know this isn’t about our specialty but I thought our followers would like to read it. Infection prevention experts say only 6% of US hospitals are deemed well-prepared to receive a patient with Ebola, according to a survey by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The survey findings, released October […]

Anesthesia Management: No Drop in Malpractice Payments When Caps Rise to $500K

Putting in place noneconomic damage caps appears to reduce payouts more than not having caps, but when caps increased to $500,000, the effect on payments was neutralized, new research shows. Specifically, any cap trimmed average payments by 15% ($42,980) compared with no cap, and a $250,000 cap reduced average payments by 20% ($59,331), researchers report […]

Anesthesia Management: Harvey Mackay: 9 ways to maintain motivation

Motivation must come from within. You have to ignite your own passion. Otherwise, how do you explain that in a roomful of people who hear the same message, some will just go back to the office, grateful for the break, while others go on to accomplish great things. I am fascinated with the science of […]

Anesthesia Management: Investing in outpatient surgery centers

Surgery centers can be highly profitable businesses if they attract top physicians, deliver quality care and are efficiently operated. A report last year by Moody’s Investors Service predicted continued strong revenue growth for surgery centers, noting that they “provide care without the high-cost infrastructures associated with hospitals.” In fact, a number of hospitals are getting […]

This is another article not about our specialty but something that can effect our practice. Although preventing infections should be at the top of a hospital’s to-do list, a rapidly approaching penalty will soon give them a financial incentive to do so. A program which started at the beginning of the 2015 fiscal year, hospitals […]