| Surgery center changes behind the scenes
Nearly a year since Covenant HealthCare announced plans to change management of outpatient surgery at its Mackinaw Medical Center, the second floor now is operating as the Mackinaw Surgery Center. The center is a joint venture of Covenant, a group of 20 physician partners, and the Leawood, Kan.-based Nueterra Healthcare management company. The transition became official this month. Whitney Miller, marketing specialist with Nueterra, said it's had no effect on operations of the same-day surgery site. "Surgeries continue to be performed as usual, so patients wouldn't know the difference," she said. The second floor at 5400 Mackinaw in Saginaw Township includes four licensed operating rooms, two procedure rooms for surgeries that don't require anesthesia and two treatment rooms for removal of skin lesions.
It's High Definition For Your Eyes
(CBS) MIAMI Imagine seeing with quadruple the clarity, quadruple the color, and quadruple to contrast of the best high definition television set. That's what this high definition vision surgery is all about, and with it just about anyone can see in HD.Margaret Nehrke's eyesight was never great--but it got worse as she got older."I couldn't read, I couldn't see anything without my glasses," she said.But now she sees better than she ever did before, thanks to a laser and lens procedure called high-definition vision."High definition will give better color, better clarity, better contrast," said Dr. William Rand.Dr. William Rand at the Rand Eye Institute says high definition vision combines CustomVue Lasik with the latest lens exchange techniques, and it can give almost anyone 'better than perfect' vision.
QPC tripled revenue in 2006; BrightLase orders boosted to $2m
QPC Lasers Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers for the defense, homeland security, industrial, and medical markets, has reported fourth-quarter 2006 revenues of $1.3m (up 40% on Q3’s $930,000 and 225% on $400,000 a year previously). Full-year revenue tripled from $1.07m in 2005 to $3.07m in 2006, due to the launch of new products and the generation of new commercial sales and government contracts through enhanced sales and marketing activities. Net loss was level with 2005, at $18.7m. QPC is accelerating the pace of its laser product launches. During first-quarter 2007, it has announced: - Initial shipments of BrightLase Direct-Diode Laser (optimized for rugged specialty military applications).
GIRLS SHOWCASE PROFILES
Ciara Thompson - Playing basketball at the park, swimming in the lake and jogging. I also enjoy spending time with family and friends. Tristen Giesey - Sports, scrapbooking, working out and watching movies. Brittany Mizer - 12 years of 4-H; outdoors, movies, hanging with friends, four wheelers, whitewater rafting. Kate Brindley - Golfing Ida Doutt - Staying active, athletics, academics, relationships and community play major parts of my life. Megan Campbell - Playing sports, reading and spending time with family. Plans After Graduation Ashley Owen - Attend the College of Wooster to play soccer and major in speech pathology. Abby Honaker - Attend college for a degree in secondary education. Rachel Kehn - Attend The Ohio State University for optometry school.
Study finds more transient inflammation with tinted AcrySof IOL in ...
Children implanted with the blue light-filtering version of the AcrySof IOL showed significantly higher rates of transient postoperative inflammation than children who received the standard nontinted lens, a study by Texas researchers found. However, both lenses were associated with similar rates of nontransient sequelae, including posterior capsular opacification, the study authors noted. Cynthia L. Beauchamp, MD, and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, reviewed records for 29 eyes of 21 children implanted with the AcrySof Natural model SN60AT (Alcon) and compared their outcomes with 38 eyes of 31 children implanted with the standard AcrySof model SA60AT (Alcon). Children were followed for an average of 5 months postop in the tinted lens group and for an average of 8 months postop in the standard lens group.
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