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Grand Rounds September
Belmont School of Pharmacy Lands First Drug Study
Saint Thomas Chest Pain Network Receives Federal Grant
Military Grant Spurs Bone Regrowth Study at Vanderbilt
Stand Up 2 Cancer
MTMC Advances Emergency Cardiac Care
CoverKids Adds Dental Benefits, Online Application
nTelagent, Inc. Automates National Program Application Process for Social Service Programs
News from The Surgical Clinic
Li Joins Neurosurgical Associates at Centennial
Hodrick Joins Southern Joint Replacement Institute and Saint Thomas
Freeman Joins Madison Practice, Skyline
Burval Joins Premier Orthopaedics at Skyline Medical Center
Hendersonville Medical Center Opens New Endoscopy Suites
Zeitlin Named Capital Campaign Director for Abe's Garden
Marsh Tapped as Administrator for Portland Medical Center
Centerre Expands Development Team
Emdeon Launches Automated Workers' Compensation and Auto Medical Processing
Gold Selected as State's Exclusive Physician Trainer for New Filler
Alive Hospice Announces Promotions
Julius Named VP of Sales for Data Advantage
Sowell Selected to Lead Winsor Health Plan Marketing
Calhoun, Sheehan Join Knoxville-Based Amputee Coalition of America
Industry's First Certification Recognizes Centers Meeting Stringent Standards & Guidelines
Skyline Offers Next Generation of Lower Limb Rehabilitation Technology
Young Cancer Survivor Gives Back During Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Doctors Join Radiology Alliance, PC
Two Private Equity Firms Invest Millions in Passport Health
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Awards, Honors, Recognitions
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Physician Spotlight: Kurt P. Spindler, MD
Swing, spin, hit, jump, twist, pivot — the knee is key to success in any sport.
When players ask too much of their knees, Kurt Spindler, MD, head team physician for Vanderbilt University's NCAA Division I varsity athletes, is the go-to guy for joints, especially knees and shoulders...
KELLY PRICE |
Administrator's Corner: Lorrie Thomas
When the founding physician of Summit Bone and Joint approached Lorrie Thomas about helping him launch a new practice in 2001, she thought it would be a temporary job. "My intention was to get the practice organized and going … but I've been with them all these years," she said with a laugh.
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It's Almost October … Are You Ready to Fight Infection?
Tick-tock … tick-tock.
By now, there shouldn't be an administrator, provider or facility unaware of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pending reimbursement changes for selected hospital-acquired infections (see box). Despite the ticking clock, however, concern exists that some facilities remain unprepared....
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Keeping Minors in Major League Condition
Better, faster, harder, stronger … there’s no doubt that in the highly competitive, overscheduled world of today’s youth, the potential for athletic injury is a clear and present danger...
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Pay Up
Accounting Experts Offer Advice for Dealing with Bad Debt
According to a 2005 survey of physician practices conducted by the Medical Group Management Association, 92 percent of the practices that responded contract with a collection agency for past-due patient accounts. But what steps should practices take first? When should delinquent accounts go to collections? How much control should physicians retain over these accounts? ...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
BCBST Rolls Out Quality and Cost Transparency Initiative
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is set to make available this month to its commercial members quality and cost information on nearly 4,000 Tennessee physicians. The giant insurer originally planned to unveil the transparency initiative on April 1, but outcries from physicians and advocacy groups such as the Tennessee Medical Association and the Tennessee Medical Group Management Association prompted BlueCross to make some changes before the program was finalized...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Next Generation Imaging Brings Upright MRI to Tennessee
Earlier this year, Next Generation Imaging LLC opened the doors of their Charlotte Avenue office near downtown Nashville. At the cornerstone of the diagnostic imaging center's services is the state's first Upright MRI.
Developed and manufactured by Fonar, the UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI allows patients to sit, stand, bend, lean or lie down. The concept behind the dynamic imaging equipment is that patients can be scanned in the positions in which they experience pain...
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"Get Your Hands in the Air, Doc!"
New York's tony Upper East Side was in shock last February after Kathryn Faughey, a 56-year-old psychiatrist, was slashed to death with a meat cleaver while at work in her office. Charged with the crime is a former patient of Faughey's partner in the practice, Kent Shinbach, 70, who was seriously injured trying to save Faughey.
Simple Internet searches reveal a growing number of physician assaults across the country: a Chicago dermatologist stabbed to death by a patient whose acne treatment caused impotence, and a pain-management doctor in Port St. Lucie, Fla., who was beaten by a patient wielding a walking cane...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Bredesen Addresses Area Healthcare Executives
Last month, Gov. Phil Bredesen stood before a packed ballroom at The Hermitage Hotel to address members of the Nashville Health Care Council (NHCC) as he shared his thoughts and concerns about the future of healthcare on a state and national level...
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it takes more than medical school to practice medicine
New physicians spend four years in medical school followed by three to seven years training as residents and fellows. All of this education qualifi es a physician in the practice of medicine; however, it may not provide the knowledge or experience in the business of medicine...
Kristy A. Nolze & Andrew D. McDonald, FACHE |
Refining Rotator Cuff Surgery
Keith D. Nord, MD, FAAOS, founded Sports Orthopedics & Spine in Jackson, Tenn. in 1996. Although based in a smaller city, the practice is certainly considered a major league player in sports medicine.
While most fellowships are associated with a major university in a large city, Sports Orthopedics & Spine has offered a sports medicine fellowship for the past four years, and it has received ACGME accreditation. Much of the practice's renown centers on its founder's work refining arthroscopic shoulder surgery and developing tools for his techniques...
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Best Practices: Perioperative Management of Patients with Coronary Artery Stents
The advent of coronary stenting as a primary revascularization option over the past decade has created management challenges for cardiologists, surgical subspecialists, anesthesiologists, and primary care physicians alike. Significant among these has been the problematic selection of specific therapeutic approach and device selection in patients with coronary artery disease, and the management of subsequent requisite antiplatelet therapy in those with implanted stents in the perioperative period for those patients who require elective or urgent non-cardiac surgical procedures.
S. Jennings III MD, FACC, FSCAI, Interventional Cardiologist, Vanderbilt Heart |
Ming Wang Publishes Textbook to Address LASIK Complications
When patients elect to have LASIK eye surgery, they anticipate a future free of glasses or contacts. What they don't anticipate is irregular astigmatism, caused by the surgery and resulting in symptoms such as blurred or double vision, halos, starbursts, glare and decreased night vision.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Sports Medicine Update with the AOSSM
Founded in 1972, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) is an association of orthopaedic surgeons dedicated to helping everyone who is active, from the professional athlete to the weekend warrior. In addition to research into the biomechanics of injury and honing techniques for repair, the membership is very focused on preventing sports injuries through educating the public –– including young athletes, parents and coaches –– about the best ways to keep healthy and stay in the game...
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Tennessee Rolls Out Statewide Stroke Registry
This summer, Gov. Phil Bredesen signed the Tennessee Stroke Registry Act of 2008 into law. The legislation represents a culmination of work by the American Heart Association's (AHA) Stroke Systems of Care task force, numerous providers, public health officials and legislators from both sides of the aisle.
The volunteer registry has widely been hailed as a significant step in an attempt to turn the tide on stroke … the number three killer in Tennessee and the state's leading cause of disability...
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