North American Partners in Anesthesia will begin providing anesthesia services at a Bon Secours hospital in Newport News Va., starting Feb. 1.  The organization will work with Bon Secours Mary ...

A hospital’s anesthesia department plays a key role in many areas of the facility’s operations including operating room efficiency (on-time starts, recovery time, etc.), patient safety and clinical ...

Limiting use of desflurane helps hospitals reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; the European Union now prohibits its use ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, anesthesia — once a behind-the-scenes specialty — is now taking center stage in hospital systems. Since the 1980s, anesthesia services were ...

Anesthesia leaders say a convergence of workforce instability, reimbursement pressure and cultural strain is pushing the specialty toward an inflection point. From staffing models and pay inequities ...

Staffing and recruiting challenges for a local anesthesia group have come to a head this week at a local hospital. St. Joseph Medical Center, part of the Virginia Mason Franciscan Health system, is ...

9. Other systems that have recently eliminated desflurane use include the University of California health system, Renton, Wash.-based Providence, Columbus-based OhioHealth, the University of Vermont ...

Responding to “overwhelming” patient concerns, officials at Kaiser Permanente’s Woodland Hills hospital said they will not allow anesthesiologists to sedate children younger than 2 unless they have in ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Aug. 15, 2012) – Mission Hospital is pleased to announce a renewal and expansion of its long-standing partnership with Asheville Anesthesia Associates, P.A. “For over 40 years ...

A University of California, Irvine hospital could lose its federal funding after state inspectors discovered that doctors filled out anesthesiology records and surgery outcomes before the procedures ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A battle over who should control the anesthesia staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital has turned into a federal lawsuit with back and forth allegations of who is to blame. Millions of ...