Former health system employee charged with selling stolen medical equipment, including imaging systems

Corey Hollmann, the 44-year-old former head of Melbourne Same Day Surgery Center in Melbourne, Florida, has been charged with selling stolen hospital equipment—including medical monitors, imaging systems and skin-grafting instruments—from the nearby Holmes Regional Medical Center.

Ascension forms ‘global supply chain’ joint venture with Australia’s Ramsay

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Ascension Healthcare CEO Patricia Maryland, DrPH, and Ascension CEO Anthony Tersigni, EdD, speaking at the 2018 ACHE Congress in Chicago.

Ascension, the largest nonprofit health system in the U.S., has announced a new joint venture with Australia-based hospital operator Ramsay Health Care Limited to create a global supply chain to reduce costs for Ascension’s 2,600 sites of care and the more than 230 facilities Ramsay operates in six countries.

STEMI patients receive faster care in states that allow direct EMS transport to specialized hospitals

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New research suggests people exhibiting ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) receive life-saving treatment more quickly if they live in states that allow emergency medical services (EMS) to take patients straight to hospitals that offer specialized treatment, rather than those that do not.