News and Notes

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has released a newly updated and enhanced Credentialing and Privileging Toolkit. The new resource is designed to demystify and provide guidance on the design and implementation of an effective...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), a national nonprofit that represents the interests of more than 200,000 perioperative nurses who care for surgical patients from pre-op and surgery through postoperative recovery, is honored to receive a...

Medline has announced that after more than 26 years of leadership, Charlie Mills (CEO), Andy Mills (President) and Jim Abrams (COO) will retire from their current roles. They will continue to serve the company on its Board of Directors, with Charlie Mills leading as...

Portable Medical Equipment (PME) such as IV pumps, workstations on wheels (WOWs) and vitals machines can carry and transfer dangerous pathogens between rooms and patients within health care facilities because the equipment is often used and rolled between multiple...

CS Medical has announced clearance of a new Class II medical device by the U.S. FDA, Ethos Automated Ultrasound Probe Cleaner Disinfector. “Ethos is the first medical device cleared in North America which provides both cleaning and high-level disinfection of...

OR Today is proud to have the support of AORN Connecticut Chapter I for the inaugural Periop ConneCT conference set for September 8-9, 2023 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut.