Author: Claire Wallace

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is seeking approval to build a five-story medical office building in Sacramento, Calif., according to a March 12 report from NBC affiliate KCRA.

A real estate firm is seeking approval from city planning directors for a medical office building in San Jose, Calif., according to a March 12 report from The Mercury News.

A medical office building in Warwick, R.I., has sold for $8.1 million, according to a March 12 report from Providence Business Journal.

Silver Spring, Md.-based Capital Digestive Care, the largest private GI practice in the Mid-Atlantic, has launched LGI-Flag, an AI-driven algorithm used to flag individuals at risk for lower GI disorders that warrant further evaluation.

Digestive health, liver, obesity and GI cancer specialists with Mercy Health Services/Mercy Medical Center will begin seeing patients in collaboration with Frederick (Md.) Gastroenterology Associates. 

Peterborough, N.H.-based Monadnock Community Hospital opened its first gastroenterology department, according to a March 11 report from The Keene Sentinel. 

Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children's Health has opened its fifth outpatient care center in Southeastern Pennsylvania, according to a March 11 report from the Philadelphia Business Journal .

As spine surgery continues to shift to the outpatient setting, here are 9 things to know about endoscopic spine surgery and ASCs: 

A 5,883-square-foot medical office building in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, has sold, according to a March 11 report from REBusiness Online. 

Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' department of internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine has added cardiologist Michael Luna, MD, as a professor.