ASC News

Here are five must-read articles on Becker's ASC Review this week:

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health received an unspecified donation from Nick and Margaret Faitos that the health system will use to expand its surgery center, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.

Medline made a $250,000 donation to One World Surgery to support the construction of a new surgery center in the Dominican Republic.

Zehra Hyderi, DPM, completed the first foot and ankle surgery Barrington (Ill.) Pain & Spine Institute Dec. 20.

Shirley Douglas, the former owner of a Southfield, Mich., pain clinic, was sentenced to prison Dec. 19 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distributed controlled substances.

Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System is restricting patient visitations through the holidays because of increased influenza activity.

Hospitals are increasingly taking ownership of ASCs and adding physician-owned ones to their portfolios, D CEO Healthcare reported based on a survey from Avanza Healthcare Strategies.

The ASC industry landscape has changed considerably in the past decade.

Here are the top 15 most read stories on Becker's ASC Review this year:

The ASC industry could be on the forefront of health IT innovation, according to Tom Scott, CFO of HST Pathways.