Caitlin Ashley Evans, a former nurse who admitted to diverting opioids while working at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., has been sentenced to three years of probation.
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ERs grapple with boarding, burnout and déjà vu
Emergency departments and the specialty of emergency medicine are like the well-adjusted friend who is in need of help, but everyone assumes is doing just fine.
UR Medicine selects Providence-built tool for virtual visits
Rochester, N.Y.-based UR Medicine has selected DexCare to power its virtual visits and telehealth program.
Colorado bill to end facility fees rolled back
Colorado House Bill 23-1215, legislation that originally proposed a ban on hospital facility fees for care provided outside a hospital, is being rolled back to just ban facility fees for telehealth services, preventive services and primary care, The De…
Ohio city taps Cleveland Clinic clinicians for telehealth EMS program
Akron, Ohio, has been working to reduce the load on its emergency services and ambulance fleet through a telehealth pilot program where patients can receive virtual care from clinicians at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, the Akron Beacon Journal report…
Lifepoint-owned Virginia hospital sees ER expansion budget upped to over $20M
Sovah Health, part of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health, said the emergency room renovations at its Danville, Va., site are now budgeted at more than $20 million compared with an original estimate of $12 million, according to a March 22 Danville …
NYU Langone to open 700K square feet of ASC space in former retail facilities
New York City-based NYU Langone Health is spending millions on vacant retail spaces in the area, including a former Sears, a Burlington, a Lord & Taylor and a shopping center, with plans to build 700,000 square feet of ASCs, according to a March 22…
Medtronic partnership launches innovation website for GI Genius modules
Medtronic has partnered with Cosmo Pharmaceuticals and Nvidia to create a platform for third-party developers to build artificial intelligence models that can be used with Medtronic’s GI Genius endoscopy modules.
Tennessee physician, treatment facility to pay $100K to settle false claim allegations
A Johnson City, Tenn.-based physician and treatment clinic must pay $100,000 to resolve allegations they violated the Opioid Addiction Recovery Fraud Prevention Act of 2018 and the FTC Act, the Justice Department said March 22.
Scammers using South Carolina physician practices to get patient information
Scammers in South Carolina are using the phone numbers of physicians offices to access patients’ personal information, NBC affiliate WYFF reported March 22.
