ASC News

Two Pennsylvania organizations are collaborating to support an increasing number of independent medical practices in the region.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is collaborating with Lyft to improve transportation options for patients and staff.

"It's an incredible challenge to remain independent."

A dispute with state regulators is keeping Colchester, Vt.-based Green Mountain Surgery Center from helping to reduce a backlog of 320 young patients who need urgent care, the Burlington Free Press reports.

Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health is moving its information technology teams into a new central space in an existing facility, Louisville Business First reports.

This year, the ASC industry celebrates its 50th anniversary. According to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, the first ASC was established in 1970 by Wallace Reed, MD, and John Ford, MD, in Phoenix.

Physicians who retire from small practices increasingly aren't replaced, as physicians new to medicine opt for hospital employment instead, according to research published Jan. 14 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Here are four must-read articles for ASC leaders this week: 

ASC software developer Surgical Information Systems outlined the key trends ASCs should pay attention to in 2020.

A woman who allegedly stole fentanyl from the Cincinnati surgery center where she worked at the time was indicted by a grand jury on two felony charges, WLWT Cincinnati reports.