Author: Cameron Cortigiano

The highest-paid cardiologist in Los Angeles, the most populated city in the West, earns $997,400 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool.  Cardiologists earn an average of $432,490 annually across the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. …

WVU Medicine United Hospital Center in Bridgeport, W.Va., broke ground on a 62,000-square-foot outpatient surgery center, according to a Feb. 5 report from WV News.  The $48 million project will include eight operating rooms equipped with robotic capabilities.  The center…

The Nacogdoches (Texas) Heart and Vascular Clinic held its grand opening and is fully operational, according to a Feb. 4 report from ABC affiliate KTRE. Physicians from Woodlands Heights Cardiology clinic, which recently closed, have relocated to the new practice…

Moffitt Cancer Center has opened a 120,000-square-foot outpatient building in Land O’Lakes, Fla. The center will provide infusion services, clinical space, radiology, radiation oncology and a 30,000-square-foot proton therapy treatment center, according to a Feb. 5 news release from Hammes,…

Here are the supply chain updates ASC leaders need to know this week.

Chamber, a cardiology-focused data and intelligence platform, has raised $60 million in Series A funding.  The funding will be used to grow Chamber’s partnerships with health plans and cardiology practices, branch out into new markets and build its clinical, operational…

Medtronic is exercising its option to acquire CathWorks, an interventional cardiology medical device company.  The acquisition follows a strategic partnership between the two companies to co-promote the CathWorks FFRangio System, which provides a physiological assessment of the coronary tree directly…

Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital in St. Port Lucie, Fla., has added Morgan Manasa, MD, according to a Feb. 1 report from South Florida Hospital News.  Dr. Manasa is a surgeon who specializes in advanced gastrointestinal, minimally invasive and bariatric surgery. …

Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital Health Network is set to begin construction on an ambulatory outpatient center and medical office building in Union, Ky.  The $16 million project will provide services including primary care, cardiology care, women’s health and diagnostics and lab…

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health is set to add five gastroenterology physicians to its Black Hills region.  Oksana Aleksenko, MD, Nathan Jaqua, MD, Blake Jones, MD, Andrew Kelts, DO, and Erik Raborn, DO, are set to join the organization, according…