Healthcare
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Help AREUFIT Gather Shoes To Support Soles4Souls
Philly.com reports West Chester’s AREUFIT Health Services is collecting unwanted shoes to donate to Soles4Souls, a nonprofit that uses shoes to fight global poverty. AREUFIT provides preventive health and biometric screenings, corporate health and disease prevention programs and wellness services, and decided to support Soles4Souls because of the positive change it fosters in people’s lives.…
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Depuy Synthes Markets New Mandibular Device
DePuy Synthes, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, has launched an adaptable wave-patterned bone borne plate and screw system for temporary stabilization of mandibular and maxillary fractures and osteotomies. The MatrixWAVE™ MMF System gives surgeons more flexibility and patients more comfort, according to the West Chester firm. The system features short and tall plates with a…
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Wayne Biotech Medgenics Testing Out The Future Of Personalized Medicine
A Wayne biotech company is aiming to replace medications with personalized gene therapy, and it’s starting with rare pediatric diseases. In partnership with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and flush with cash from its $24.2 million initial public stock offering, Medgenics is working with diseased tissue samples en route to developing a way to re-engineer them to…
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Bryn Mawr Hospital Moving Open Heart Surgery To Lankenau
After years of contemplation, leaders of the Bryn Mawr Hospital have decided to transfer their open heart surgery division down the road to Lankenau Medical Center, according to a recent Main Line Suburban Life report. A hospital representative broke the news to the Radnor Board of Health on Dec. 15. “We firmly believe the decision on cardiothoracic…
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FDA Green-Lights Breakthrough DePuy Synthes Device
More people with the rare congenital condition thoracic insufficiency syndrome will be finding help from a vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib devices made by DePuy Synthes Spine, a Johnson & Johnson company. FDA News is reporting DePuy Synthes Spine just won FDA 510(k) clearance for its VEPTR and VEPTR II vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib…
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Malvern’s Ricoh Streamlining Healthcare IT
A new software partnership for Malvern-headquartered Ricoh Americas Corp. aims to speed up the digital heartbeat of modern hospitals and save both time and money along the way. Ricoh’s recently-announced deal with Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.. will bring its VPSX solution to hospitals and other organizations to “ensure that critical data gets to important decision-makers in…
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Report Finds Women Underrepresented At Academic Medicine’s Top
Education Management Solutions of Exton is reporting that although women make up about one-third of the full-time academic medicine workforce, they are underrepresented in key faculty and leadership positions. EMS has online the Association of American Medical College’s biennial report, The State of Women in Academic Medicine: The Pipeline and Pathways to Leadership 2013–2014–you can…
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Main Line Health Dominates 2014 ‘Top Doctors’ Rankings
Claiming 21 of the 33 No. 1-ranked physicians who were recently celebrated atop this year’s Main Line Today magazine “Top Doctors” list, Main Line Health dominated the special recognition for doctors, chosen by fellow physicians from across the state. “I am very proud of the physicians who made this year’s ‘Top Doctors’ list,” Chief Medical…
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Nursing Excellence At Chester County Hospital
The nurses at Penn Medicine’s Chester County Hospital have recently brought an elite stamp of approval to West Chester through years of providing the highest-quality patient care and innovative excellence in their professional practice. The nursing team there is now listed as Magnet-recognized, the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s “ultimate credential for high-quality nursing,” according to a congratulatory…
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Better Neighbors? Chester County More Likely To Have Bystanders Help With CPR
Bystanders who come across emergency situations where someone is experiencing cardiac arrest are more likely to perform CPR in wealthy counties like Chester County, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. About half of bystanders in higher-income locations performed CPR, with a 23.3 percent rate of success, compared…
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Four Area Hospitals Win State Hospital Association Awards
Aria Health, Main Line Health, Penn Medicine and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital all received significant awards during the Nov. 14 meeting of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council of the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania. Main Line Health received The Health Care Improvement Foundation’s top award for their successful efforts to save more lives. Main…
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Genesis Healthcare Buys New Hampshire Nursing Facility
Genesis HealthCare of Kennett Square has purchased yet another health care facility, the Hackett Hill Healthcare Center (now called Hackett Hill Center), a 68-bed skilled nursing facility in Manchester, N.H. Genesis now has 400 skilled nursing centers and senior living residences in 28 states. With the purchase of Hackett Hill Center, 31 of these are…
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Siemens Develops Heroes Kit For Children Needing MRI Exams
If Marvel’s Captain America can lay still during a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam, so can kids. That’s the message of a special comic book designed to ease children’s fears before they undergo a scan, which requires them to lay still in a narrow, loud machine. The new Marvel Custom Solutions comic book is included in…
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With Ebola Connection To Pennsylvania, Radnor Readies For The Disease
As Pennsylvania confronts the possibility of Ebola within its borders, Radnor Township is taking steps to be one of the first to be ready if it spreads. Three state residents — albeit northwest Pennsylvania residents — are being monitored after flying with a nurse who tested positive for the disease after treating a West African patient…
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Chester County Hospital Honored For LGBT Support
Less than a year old, a new program at Chester County Hospital has garnered national distinction for its support and care of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients. “Our mission has always been to provide welcoming and culturally sensitive care for all communities, including the LGBT community,” program director of medicine Baligh Yehia said in an article…
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Precyse Praised by Industry for Leading Medical Documentation Improvements
Precyse, the Wayne health information management firm, recently earned high praise from Klas Research for its Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) services. Klas Research aims to improve healthcare technology delivery by accurately and impartially measuring vendor performance. Precyse’s CDI services topped other firms in the Klas report titled “CDI Services 2014: Providing Light to Documentation Darkness.”…
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American Cancer Society Inaugurates CEO’s Against Cancer Chapter
Last Thursday CEOs from the South Eastern Pennsylvania region met at the Philadelphia Union League to inaugurate the PA chapter of the American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer initiative. The 100 year-old American Cancer Society is the nation’s largest, non-profit funder of life-saving cancer research. Since 1946 the ACS has raised over $3.9 billion for researchers studying…
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More Expansion For Genesis HealthCare Of Kennett Square
Genesis HealthCare of Kennett Square announced two expansion efforts this month. One of the nation’s largest skilled nursing providers, Genesis is now offering a driving rehabilitation service, and has also acquired Glenwood Healthcare, Inc., now called Glenwood Center. This is a 125-bed skilled nursing facility in Florence, Al. The 5-star facility offers short-stay rehabilitation and…
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