ASC News

Five must read articles for ASC leaders this week:

  Professional societies are offering guidance to ASCs and healthcare practice on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Less than a year after opening, a Nebraska ASC has plans to bolster its workforce, Sioux City Journal reports.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear ordered clinicians to stop performing elective medical procedures March 23 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Louisville Courier Journal reports.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued an executive order to limit outpatient surgery centers during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an ABC 7 report.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association released a tool for ASCs to record the resources and capacity they have to assist with COVID-19 patients.

Surgery centers nationwide are closing or restricting access because of the coronavirus pandemic, including 14 UPMC locations. Here are seven others:

Physician-owned practices and ASCs can secure Small Business Association grants and loans if needed to meet payroll and pay the bills during the coronavirus pandemic.

Kaleida Health in Buffalo, N.Y., is recommending hospitals use ASCs to accommodate COVID-19 patients, according to Niagara Frontier Publications.

Westchester, Ill.-based ASC management and development company Regent Surgical Health is adjusting its policies and procedures in response to the coronavirus outbreak.