The University of Toledo (Ohio) earned full accreditation for its Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nurse Anesthesia Program. The program continues the nurse anesthesia education previously offered at Sylvania, Ohio-based Lourdes University, which closed at the end of the 2025-26…
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Anesthesia stipends have moved from a rare accommodation to a routine budget item that some ASCs can no longer absorb. The forces behind the shift show up clearly in the data: a shrinking anesthesia workforce, falling reimbursement and provider pay…
The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology launched Anesthesia Answers on Aug. 22, 2026, a patient education platform built by certified registered nurse anesthetists to help patients understand anesthesia care. The website, AnesthesiaAnswers.org, gives patients and families direct answers to common…
From new programs to enrollment expansions, universities are racing to build a CRNA pipeline that the healthcare system increasingly depends on. Here are three universities that are adding new anesthesia programs or expanding existing ones, as reported by Becker’s since…
For years, ASC staffing shortages were treated as a cost-line headache. Now, leaders increasingly describe workforce scarcity as something closer to a ceiling on what an ASC can safely do at all. “ASCs are particularly dealing with shortages in skilled…
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Apex Anesthesia Review launched its Apex Job Board, a hiring platform for nurse anesthetists. The platform connects certified registered nurse anesthetists and student registered nurse anesthetists with ASCs, hospitals, health systems, private practices and anesthesia groups, according to an Aug.…
Momentum Health Partners has expanded its investment in Desert Pain Specialists, deepening a partnership first formed in 2023 to grow the Rancho Mirage, California-based interventional pain management practice, Real Estate Daily News reported Aug. 20. The Phoenix-based healthcare platform company…
University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson has enrolled 16 registered nurses in the inaugural class of its new certified registered nurse anesthetist program this semester, launching Mississippi’s second academic pathway into the specialty, Red Hills MS News reported Aug.…
Both state and federal lawmakers have passed five anesthesia-related bills in the last three months, a pace that signals anesthesia policy is no longer a slow-moving regulatory backwater. The common thread is that lawmakers are simultaneously expanding who can administer…
Anesthesia has become one of the most expensive line items on an ASC’s books. Stipend payments are now standard. The share of ASCs paying anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, according to VMG Health data.…