ASC News

Michael Thorpe, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Pacific Rim Outpatient Surgery Center in Bellingham, Wash., was one of outpatient total joint's early pioneers. Alongside fellow surgeons and anesthesiologists, he opened Pacific Rim Outpatient Surgery Center in 2003. The independent, for-profit…

eSutures.com moved into new headquarters in Mokena, Ill.

North Shore Eye Care, a division of SightMD, added ophthalmologist Craig Richter, MD, to its location in Huntington, N.Y.

Brooksville, Fla.-based Hernando Endoscopy and Surgery is using "Site of Surgery Assistant," an app aimed at preventing wrong-site surgeries, according to Tampa Bay Times.

Here are six updates on ASC management companies from the past week.

Charlene Mooney of Halley Consulting Group outlines the key concepts for smartly staffing an ambulatory surgery center.

A new report from Transparency Market Research examines the ambulatory surgery center and emergency center markets.

Sixty-eight percent of residents report immense medical school debt of $50,000 or more, according to Medscape's "Residents Salary & Debt Report 2016."

Increasingly, retail spaces are adding offices offering medical services, according to a Bloomberg report.

Here are seven updates from the past week.