The National Cancer Institute has appointed Senthil Muthuswamy, PhD, director of the Center for Cancer Research. Dr. Muthuswamy previously served as chief of the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics within the Center for Cancer Research, according to a July…
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Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has tapped Adam Boruchov, MD, as physician-in-chief of the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute. Dr. Boruchov succeeds Peter Yu, MD, who is stepping down from the role after more than a decade, according to a news release shared…
The Stanford Cancer Institute, part of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine, has appointed Pamela Munster, MD, inaugural associate director for early detection and interception research. Dr. Munster will work alongside Vivek Subbiah, MD, associate director of drug development and precision…
Monica Baskin, PhD, has been named director of Richmond, Va.-based VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, pending board approval in September. Dr. Baskin will begin serving as director Aug. 3, according to a July 27 news release from VCU Massey. She…
This webinar is on-demand and can be viewed at your convenience. At many infusion centers, nurse schedules are built on tradition rather than data, leaving teams stretched thin on busy days and overstaffed on slow ones. As patient volumes rise…
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- Amanda Carbray, Clinic Operations Manager, Hartford HealthCare
- Betsy Hlavac, Clinical Operations Manager, Ambulatory Infusion & Medical Oncology, Hartford HealthCare
Utilization review teams face a constant squeeze: manual EHR searches for clinical documentation slow admission and appeal processes, introduce errors and raise denial risk — all while revenue hangs in the balance. Stormont Vail Health confronted these inefficiencies directly. By…
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- Chad Yeager, RN, MSN, VP of Quality and Population Health, Stormont Vail Health
- Brianna Brown, MSN, BSN, RN-BC, CCDS, Director of Clinical Performance, Stormont Vail Health
- Sri V. Suravarapu, MD, MPH, CPE, CHCQM-PHYADV, Medical Director of Utilization Review / Clinical Appeals, Stormont Vail Health
Despite time-outs and standard protocols, positioning-related nerve and pressure injuries continue to occur in spine surgery. They tend to strike where teams least expect them — in high-complexity cases, in prone and lateral positions, and in patients whose risk was…
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- Jen Anzalone MSN, RN, CNOR, CSSL, NPD-BC, NE-BC, Perioperative Consultant and Surgical Services Nurse Manager, J. Anzalone Consulting
A team at Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University has become the first in Oregon to implant a radioactive brain tumor device. The device, called the GammaTile, is the size of a postage stamp and is implanted after a brain…
Atlanta-based Northside Hospital has opened a radiation oncology center at Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Lawrenceville, Ga. The facility has TrueBeam and Halcyon linear accelerators, high-dose-rate brachytherapy and on-site CT simulation, according to a July 20 news release from the health…
Excess abdominal fat may increase patients’ risk of developing non-small cell lung cancer, according to a study published June 29 in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology. Researchers from Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed data from 1,170 current…