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DayOne Health, Chicago’s premier weight loss program, is launching its second LAP-BAND® Giveaway Contest. The lucky winner will receive a LAP-BAND® procedure at no cost and twelve months of follow up care at DayOne Health’s downtown location. DayOne Health currently has three locations in and around the Chicago area: 900 North Michigan Avenue, South Side, and the Western Suburbs. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 19, 2012 Between March 1st 2012 and June 30th 2012, prospective...
Dr. Scot Martin opens accredited center for plastic surgery in Las Cruces to give his Las Cruces and El Paso patients a more comfortable experience. Las Cruces, NM (PRWEB) September 06, 2011 Dr. Scot Martin announces the opening of his new center for plastic surgery. El Paso and Las Cruces patients can now have outpatient procedures performed in a welcoming environment through the certified center. “Hospitals have their place,†said Dr. Martin, “but we feel patients who...
BETHESDA, Md., July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), a national leader in the development and management of surgery centers, surgical hospitals, and surgery departments, announced today it has entered into a formal agreement with Suburban Outpatient Surgery Center, a subsidiary of Suburban Hospital Healthcare System, Inc., a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to enhance ambulatory surgical services in the Bethesda and Montgomery County areas. Under the agreement, SCA...
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Virginia Society of Plastic Surgeons (VASPS) announced its initiative to work with the Virginia Board of Medicine to protect patients in Virginia from inadequately trained practitioners performing surgery in outpatient offices. In Virginia, a doctor without sufficient training to be allowed to perform surgery in a hospital can perform surgery in an outpatient office. "Due to limited regulations, patients in Virginia have been injured...
Amy, a Chicago resident, also a free Lap-Band surgery winner at DayOne Health has received her weight loss surgery procedure. Chicago, IL. (Vocus/PRWEB) January 03, 2011 After winning a contest, a Chicago resident has received a free lap-band surgery at DayOne Health, a leading outpatient weight loss surgery program located at the 900 North Michigan Surgery Center in downtown Chicago. Her goal: to overcome obesity and related conditions. For her whole life Amy, 31 year old Chicago...
DALLAS, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- White County Medical Center has selected Dallas-based Loopback Communications' technology-leading solution to support its efforts to reduce readmissions of discharged patients. The Readmission Reduction service blends the latest automated-communications technologies with the hospital's existing staff to achieve its desired goals of reduced readmissions, improved patient care, reduced costs and increased patient satisfaction. "White County is focused on...
CLEARWATER, Fla., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), one of the country's largest providers of outpatient surgical services, announced today it has entered into a joint venture arrangement with West Coast Endoscopy Center in Clearwater, Florida to partner in the operation of the center. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080812/CLTU111LOGO ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080812/CLTU111LOGO ) Under the agreement, SCA and a group of physician...
A new federal study has discovered that many same-day surgery centers have serious problems with infection control. The report said that people failed to wash hands, wear gloves or provide clean blood glucose meters. Clinics reused devices meant for one person or dipped into single-dose medicine vials for multiple patients. Experts said the findings, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest lax infection practices may pervade the nation's over 5,000...
OCEANSIDE, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), one of the country's largest providers of specialty surgical services, announced today it has entered into a formal agreement to partner with the Tri-City Healthcare District (TCHD) at its North Coast Surgery Center (NCSC). The TCHD Board of Directors unanimously approved to acquire an interest in the center and the deal was completed on April 1. NCSC is an ambulatory surgery center adjacent to Tri-City Medical...
RALEIGH, N.C., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), one of the country's largest providers of specialty surgical services, announced today it has entered into a formal agreement with WakeMed Health & Hospitals to enhance ambulatory surgical services in the Raleigh, N.C. area. Under the agreement, WakeMed will purchase an interest in the general partnership that operates the Blue Ridge Surgery Center in Raleigh. The center, which will continue to be managed by SCA,...
