ASC News

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.

On most days in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC), communication is second nature.

A Colchester, Vt. ASC has offered to take patients from a University of Vermont Medical Center campus while its operating rooms are closed during the investigation of mysterious odors there, according to the Burlington Free Press.