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One Medical Passport and Mnet Health announced the winner of the 2021 Ambulatory Surgery Everyday Heroes award, according to a Dec. 2 news release.

St. Luke's Surgical Center in Tarpon Springs, Fla., is being sued by a patient who lost her eye to a fungal infection after one of its surgeons, Brandon Rodriguez, MD, performed a cornea transplant, Tampa Free Press reported Dec. 1.

California officials confirmed that a recent case of COVID-19 was caused by the omicron coronavirus variant — the first known case detected in the U.S. The individual returned from South Africa Nov. 22.

In the past month, an ASC physician-owner and a former ASC CEO both announced that they will be running for political office in 2022. 

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The Leapfrog Group, a quality and patient safety watchdog, assessed ASCs for quality standards across performance indicators including staffing, patient experience, hand hygiene, surgical checklist protocols and error prevention.

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