Rockville, Md.-based Tower Surgical Partners opened the doors to its ASCs in Rockville and Secaucus, N.J. to clinicians looking to perform urgent surgeries.
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, some states and health systems continue to perform elective procedures, Medpage Today reports.
Sami Spencer, CEO of Missoula (Mont.) Bone & Joint Surgery Center, discusses how the coronavirus is affecting operations and her plans to ramp surgery back up in the future.
Oklahoma City-based OU Medicine developed and rolled out a surge plan to deal with COVID-19 cases, The Norman Transcript reports.
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BayCare Health System is retraining and reassigning employees who work in departments where elective surgeries are suspended, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC made a series of moves to reduce surgical caseloads across some of its locations, the Bedford Gazette reports.
Marion (Ill.) HealthCare is appealing a ruling that the contracts entered into by Carbondale-based Southern Illinois HealthCare and BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois did not violate federal antitrust laws, Bloomberg Law reports.
For surgery centers, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could linger long after the crisis is contained.
Florida's emergency operations center is surveying ASCs about their resources and capacity for COVID-19 patients, according to WUSF News.