Shreveport, La.-based Ochsner LSU Health has signed an agreement to acquire Regional Urology, an eight-physician group, ABC affiliate KTBS3 reported March 8.
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State regulators granted Steindler Clinic's planned $19.2 million ASC in Iowa City, Iowa, a certificate of need after a last-minute withdrawal of all opposition to the facility, The Gazette reported March 7.
Essentia Health is building a 41,000-square-foot surgery center at Miller Hill Mall in Duluth, Minn., Fox 21 reported March 7.
Cincinnati-based TriHealth will begin work on a $30 million outpatient campus in March that is expected to bring 120 jobs to the area, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Ochiltree General Hospital in Perryton, Texas, is building a 6,000-square-foot, $5 million surgery center to expand access to care in the region, New Channel 10 reported March 3.
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Noncompete agreements prohibit physicians for a certain period of time from joining a competing practice or setting up their own within a particular geographic distance from their previous practice. But regulations vary from state to state and a recent executive…
Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based Grand Strand Medical Center has asked a state court to block a rival health system's plans for a $15.3 million ASC in Carolina Forest, where the hospital says it is a major medical provider, The Post and…
Nashville, Tenn.-based AmSurg has urged patients to undergo timely and appropriate screenings for colorectal cancer after it noted an increase in diagnoses last year.