Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter’s Health Partners will no longer hire travel nurses who live within a 50-mile radius of their workplace, according to local CBS affiliate WRGB.
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2 newly elected board members to join New Jersey Association of ASCs
The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers elected Alene Stewart, RN, CEO of Raritan Valley Surgery Center in Somerset, and Elizabeth Convery, RN, administrator of Livingston (N.J.) Surgery Center, to join the board of directors, accordin…
Texas hospital launching $16M women's health expansion project
Medical City Lewisville (Texas) is launching a $16 million project in September to expand its neonatal intensive care unit and renovate its labor and delivery unit, Community Impact reported June 27.
GE Healthcare inks deal to bring imaging device to spine practices, ASCs
GE HealthCare partnered with DePuy Synthes, Johnson & Johnson’s orthopedic business, to make GE HealthCare’s OEC 3D Imaging System more widely available to surgeons and patients nationwide.
Another hospital joins West Virginia's largest health system
Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg, W.Va., became a full member of the West Virginia University Health System, effective July 1.
American Association of Nurse Practitioners selects new president
Stephen Ferrara, DNP, has been selected as the new president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Nurse staffing laws: 3 updates from across the US
Nurse-to-patient staffing ratios — typically backed by unions and disliked by hospitals — are up for consideration in legislatures nationwide.
The healthcare disruptors ASC leaders are nervous about
Two ASC leaders joined Becker’s to discuss the healthcare disruptors that they are the most concerned about.
'It's the principle of the matter': Why a Tennessee medical center said it didn't pay hackers
A “sophisticated criminal cyberattack” may have breached the data of 559,000 patients at Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter, the healthcare provider said.
Virtua Health adds GI Genius to 5 hospitals
Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health is now using Medtronic’s GI Genius endoscopy module at five of its hospitals, KYW Newsradio reported July 1.
