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American Shared Hospital Services Announces Fourth Quarter

Conference call on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. PT San Francisco, Calif., March 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire — American Shared Hospital Services (NYSE American: AMS) (the “Company”), a leading provider of turnkey technology solutions for stereotactic radiosurgery and advanced radiation therapy equipment and services, today announced […]

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Mount A faculty ask to save Sackville hospital services, but no end in sight to cuts

Cuts to hospital services described as temporary risk damaging the momentum that helps attract people to move to or stay in Sackville, said the president of the Mount Allison University faculty association. Erin Steuter said in an interview that many people coming to New Brunswick want to work remotely from a vibrant community like Sackville. […]

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Other Alberta hospital services unavailable due to staffing shortages

A shortage of doctors and hospital staff again forced the temporary closure of some departments in three rural hospitals. In particular, obstetrics is not available at Rocky Mountain House Health Center until Monday morning. Expectant parents are advised to visit the Red Deer Regional Hospital. – about an hour away – when care is needed. […]

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More hospital services in Alberta unavailable due to staffing shortages

A shortage of doctors and hospital staff again forced the temporary closure of some departments in three rural hospitals. In particular, obstetrics is not available at Rocky Mountain House Health Center until Monday morning. Expectant parents are advised to visit the Red Deer Regional Hospital, about an hour away, when care is needed. The closure […]

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Blood shortage temporarily closes Torrance Hospital trauma center

TORRANCE (CBSLA) – The nationwide blood shortage forced the temporary closure of the trauma center at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center earlier this week. The hospital said on Wednesday it had been forced to close its trauma center to new patients for more than two hours on Monday due to the shortage. A spokesperson for the hospital […]

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Aurora Hospital Lawyer Ads Seek Public Help In Fighting COVID

With full-page newspaper ads, Advocate Aurora Health is asking the public for help in tackling the coronavirus pandemic. “We cannot stop COVID without you,” the ads aired Sunday in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Green Bay Press Gazette and Chicago Tribune said. The effort follows similar actions taken by the health systems in Cleveland and Minnesota, […]

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Tenet and USPI enter into transaction to acquire SCD

December 22, 2021 – Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) and its subsidiary United Surgical Partners International (USPI) today completed the previously announced transaction to acquire SurgCenter Development (SCD). As part of the closing of the transaction, Tenet / USPI acquired SCD’s interests in 86 outpatient surgery centers (ASCs) and other related outpatient support services for […]

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The Day – Taftville building fire displaces families and sends resident to hospital

Norwich — Four families have been displaced and an elderly resident was taken to hospital after a building fire on Saturday night at 150 Norwich Ave. in Taftville. At 10:37 p.m. Norwich Fire Battalion Chief Scott Merchant said four fire companies – Taftville, Occum, Yantic and Norwich – had been dispatched to a fire at […]

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Bartlett Hospital services stable

As hospitals statewide adopt crisis care standards due to increasing COVID-19 cases, local hospital officials say Bartlett Regional Hospital is not at a critical point. “Don’t delay your care,” Kim McDowell, Bartlett’s chief nurse, said in a press release. “Rest assured that we are ready to take care of you and meet the health needs […]

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Mennonite Health System Inaugurates $ 6 Million Projects at Caguas Hospital

From left to right: Wilmary F. Nieves, Manager of the Specialized Rehabilitation Unit; Leonardo Pirillo, medical director of the Specialized Rehabilitation Unit; and the mayor of Caguas, William Miranda-Torres. The Mennonite Health System has unveiled its new specialized rehabilitation unit at its hospital in Caguas, which will soon begin offering services to manage the recovery […]

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Mount Sinai is the leader in geriatric hospital services

The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City was no. 1 this year in geriatric care, according to the rankings of American News and World Report. The Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, followed. To round out the top 10 hospitals caring for patients over the age of 75, […]

Hospital marketing

Cyberknife Ads – A growing excess of hospital marketing

We’ve been tracking claims for Cyberknife’s “knifeless surgery” for a long time. See our blog search results. We’ve seen billboards promoting it in the metropolitan healthcare market we live in. And major East Coast medical centers promote it at subway stations. But it’s only recently that we’ve started noticing a lot of TV commercials promoting […]

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Cyberknife ads – an example of growing hospital marketing excess |

We’ve been tracking claims for Cyberknife’s “knifeless surgery” for a long time. See our blog search results. We’ve seen billboards promoting it in the metropolitan healthcare market we live in. And major East Coast medical centers promote it at subway stations. But it’s only recently that we’ve started noticing a lot of TV commercials promoting […]