After a year of growth for ASCs in 2019, Regent Surgical Health's CEO Chris Bishop shared the trends he predicts will accelerate more industry growth this year.
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The U.S. Outpatient Surgical Procedure market is expected to hit $144 billion by 2026, according to a report from Verified Market Research.
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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.
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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.