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Shields Health Enhances Patient Experience with Innovative Scheduling Portal

Boston (March, 2024) – Shields Health has launched a new Patient Scheduling Portal, an online platform aimed at simplifying the process for scheduling healthcare appointments. This portal, available around the clock, provides patients with the capability to book, adjust, or cancel MRI appointments at their convenience, outside regular office hours.   Offering real-time MRI appointment … Continued

New MRI machine cuts scan times by more than half

Brockton (January 2024) – Once known for technological breakthroughs like Thomas Edison’s three wire electrical system, Brockton hosted a new “first” on Wednesday. Workers craned a state-of-the art, 13,000-pound MRI machine into Shields Health’s flagship Brockton location. It’s the first MRI of its type in the Northeast, according to General Electric and Shields Health. Named … Continued

SHIELDS HEALTH AND TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER CELEBRATE NEW 3T MRI MACHINE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE COMFORT AND QUALITY

Exclusively available at Tufts Medical Center, the state-of-the-art machine from Philips is the first in the United States to offer high-field 3T technology, A.I. deep learning; wide, open-bore setting; in-bore entertainment Boston, Mass. (December, 2022) – Shields Health, New England’s largest network of independent imaging centers, and Tufts Medical Center (“Tufts”), celebrated their new 3T … Continued

SHREWSBURY SURGERY CENTER RECEIVES ADVANCED CERTFICATION IN Orthopedics for TOTAL JOINTS REPLACEMENT FROM AAAHC

The Surgery Center is the first and only Ambulatory Service Center (ASC) in Massachusetts to achieve Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) Certification Shrewsbury, Mass. (November, 2022) – The Surgery Center -Shrewsbury, a collaboration among Shields Health, Reliant Medical Group, and UMass Memorial Health, today announced that they have achieved Advanced Certification in Orthopedics … Continued

How much more consolidation will there be? Prashanth Bala, vice president of ASC operations at Shields Health Care Group in Quincy, Mass., spoke with Becker’s about consolidation in the ASC market, pros and cons of consolidation, and which specialties are thriving.

How much  more consolidation will there be? By Riz Hatton March 10, 2022   Consolidation continues to run rampant throughout the ASC industry, but is there a ceiling to how much there can be? Prashanth Bala, vice president of ASC operations at Shields Health Care Group in Quincy, Mass., spoke with Becker’s about consolidation in … Continued