Cancer research groups and industry leaders are trying to raise awareness of a surgery that could reduce patients’ ovarian cancer risk by almost 80% — fallopian tube removal. While evidence of the surgery’s nearly 80% risk reduction was published Feb.…
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St. Louis-based SSM Health has expanded the cancer center at St. Joseph Hospital-Lake Saint Louis (Mo.). The “multi-million-dollar transformation” increases treatment capacity and patient access to oncology services, according to a July 9 news release from SSM Health. The cancer…
The American Society for Radiation Oncology has elected Beth Erickson, MD, as president. Dr. Erickson is chief of brachytherapy services and the J. Frank and Vera B. Wilson Professor of Radiation Oncology at Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin, according to…
A new CMS rule effective June 2027 eliminates any advance notice before accreditation surveys — closing the gap between what the standard has always required and what hospitals have been able to rely on in practice. Perpetual survey-readiness is no…
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- Sunny Gahir, Manager, HR Compliance & Employee Experience Center, UCLA Health
Financial pressure, shifting patient expectations, regulatory burden and workforce shortages are forcing leaders to ask a direct question: which service lines should we expand, reduce or reinvent to stay relevant in the years ahead? Declining market share and a shifting…
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Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center has opened the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Proton Center. The proton therapy facility is located at Moffitt’s Speros Outpatient Center in Land O’Lakes, Fla., according to a July 28 news release from the cancer…
For many health systems, fragmented emergency notification workflows delay response times, limit visibility across facilities and leave safety trends hidden until after an incident. As organizations grow, siloed reporting compounds the problem and the operational cost lands on both staff…
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Patients diagnosed with autism are 35.6% less likely to receive cancer screening within one year of reaching screening eligibility despite being diagnosed at roughly the same rate as the general population. As a result, patients with autism are more likely…
The Association for Clinical Oncology has submitted comments to CMS over concerns that work requirements included in the agency’s interim final rule, published June 1, would increase administrative burden for both cancer patients and physicians. Under HR 1, low-income, nonpregnant…
Madison, Wis.-based UW Health has begun offering proton therapy services at Eastpark Medical Center, also in Madison. Proton therapy services are available for adult patients who are participating in a clinical trial, according to a July 28 news release from…