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• Florida Hospital Tampa Joins An Elite Group Of Hospitals Across The United States Offering Fully Robotic Whipple Surgery

  Florida Hospital Tampa is among an elite group of hospitals across the United States offering fully robotic Whipple surgery with Dr. Alexander Rosemurgy and Dr. Sharona Ross

• Lourdes Specialty Hospital Offers Unique Treatment Option For Medically Complex Patients With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

  In a bustling South Jersey medical community, Lourdes Specialty Hospital (LSH), the first Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) in southern New Jersey and the largest facility of its kind in the Delaware Valley, distinguishes itself as the area’s only LTACH offering an inpatient treatment that is unavailable elsewhere in the region -- hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)

• Springfield Clinic Purchases Four CARESTREAM DRX Systems To Streamline Imaging Workflow In Nine Multi-Specialty Clinics

  As part of its plan to convert nine of its facilities to a digital imaging workflow, Springfield Clinic (Springfield, Ill.) has purchased four CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution DR Rooms, a CARESTREAM DRX-Ascend System, and has retrofitted two fluoroscopy rooms and a portable imaging system with DRX-1 detectors

• Axium: Promising New Data Demonstrate That A Novel Pain Therapy System Manages Patients With Chronic Neuropathic Pain

  Spinal Modulation Inc., designed the Axium Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) System specifically to relieve chronic pain experienced by patients suffering from long-term nerve damage following surgery (chronic post surgical pain), complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), amputation pain, or failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS)

• Governor’s Deep Medi-Cal Cuts Hurt Vulnerable Patients, Compromise Access To Quality Care, And Undercut The Recovering Economy

  The following statement on Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget was issued by Dave Regan, President of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), on behalf of We Care for California, a broad new coalition of hospitals, doctors, dentists, workers, insurers, and first-responders

• NAMM IL Selects Health Access Solutions For Medical Group Management Technology

  Health Access Solutions, offering a Web-based multidisciplinary integrated health management platform, recently announced a contract with North American Medical Management of Illinois (NAMM IL)