With the new year upon us, the winter resurgence of COVID-19 has overwhelmed U.S. hospitals and brought a collective staffing strain to a near breaking point. According to HHS data, as of mid-November, nearly a quarter of U.S. facilities were experiencing or anticipating a shortage of medical staff—nurses in particular. At...
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Imagine a scenario where your department’s decade-old MRI scanner is on its last legs. But your team is busier than ever, and the goal of keeping you and your team safe prevents travel to an in-person demo. You need a new scanner, but you also need to ensure its clinical capabilities and operational fit, plus you need to...
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Please join us in extending a heartfelt congratulations to Joe Matthews, Vice President of Service, who recently celebrated 35 years with Cassling! You can read more about Joe's journey from Field Service Engineer to VP in this article, and view some photos of Joe through those years below. Congratulations, Joe, on your...
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Our values, ethics and especially our organizational culture fill our sails and propel us forward. I consistently tell my students and organizations this when it comes to leadership. These three things are what fill us up. They literally push us forward like a wind-filled sail. But what does that look like? How do we know...
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September marks two important events, each focused on an aspect of healthcare overlooked by far too many patients until it’s too late. Urology Awareness Month and National Prostate Health Month, each happening this month, emphasize the need for citizens of all ages, and especially those in at-risk demographics, to take...
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Strategy and leadership go hand in hand. One of the things I like about organizational strategy is that it takes creative, innovative and brave leadership to move an organization into the unknown. It’s like sailing into uncharted waters. It’s a place you have to go but it’s a little scary and you’re not quite sure what...
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Cassling team members learn to expect the unexpected when they respond to service calls at customer facilities. But one service call pushed that old adage to its absolute limit when Field Service Engineer (FSE) Tyler Driever discovered a squirrel living inside the CT system he’d been called to service. Just as this was no...
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“He does not always tell me what I think I want to hear, but tells me what I need to hear!” That quote from Robert Boxum sums up about everything you could ever want in a Field Service Engineer (FSE). Mike Tinsley celebrates his 20th anniversary with Cassling this July, and throughout his two decades of service, he has...
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The country continues to reel from the pandemic, and our hearts go out to nurses, doctors, technologists and other healthcare team members who have dedicated themselves to helping patients during these extraordinary times. Earlier in the year, when Americans began to grapple with just how serious the COVID-19 outbreak was...
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Hospital, health systems and clinics around the country have long relied on Cassling to not only provide them with cutting edge diagnostic imaging solutions, but to help them honor the very folks who operate those systems. For more than a decade, Cassling has provided free resources to help recognize sonographers and...
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One of the things I often hear from leaders, regardless of what industry they are in, is that they want to know what to do about difficult employees or situations. Invariably, it has something to do with some kind of conflict they are dealing with. And invariably, I tell them that I don’t have a silver bullet to fix their...
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It’s the little things you remember. When asked to share memories about Dana Downs on the eve of her 20th anniversary with Cassling, her friends and colleagues almost universally mentioned her enthusiasm, support, knowledge and welcoming presence. But each also had a unique story to tell about a subtle way Dana would do a...
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The following guest blog comes courtesy of Cheryl S. Turner, EdD., R.T., (R)(T), Director of Global Education and Training; Legion Healthcare Partners. Dr. Turner will be hosting an Investing In You webinar on Thursday, July 9 entitled, "All the Puzzle Pieces: How Imaging and Treatment Modalities Work Together." We are all...
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The following has been reposted with permission from DocPanel. It is estimated that as of June, 10 million mammograms have been deferred due to COVID-19 related restrictions. With a slow lift of lockdowns, this number is expected to grow even higher. As the shift to normalcy begins, practices that offer mammography are...
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As the pandemic continues, healthcare systems across the country find themselves confronting a wide range of scenarios. Some states have been able to ramp elective procedures back up while others are confronting a surge of COVID cases that make it exceedingly difficult to couple standard care with coronavirus-related care....
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