Author: Claire Wallace

Several health systems have taken moves to expand their gastroenterology departments in 2024, from adding new physicians to creating new facilities. 

Whether it's because they earn a higher salary or because they have more expenses, physicians' retirement savings goals tend to be greater than that of the average U.S. worker. 

Workers in Georgia spend the most time looking for new employment every month, according to  research from QR code generator QRFY. 

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital Digestive Health Center has added gastroenterologists David Schwimmer, MD, and Sheldon Taub, MD, to its practice, according to a March 6 report from South Florida Hospital News.

ASCs have changed their masking and visitor policies based on COVID-19 levels in their communities, and now the CDC has made a major update to its COVID-19 guidelines. 

A 30,000-square-foot, three-story medical office building has been approved in Holly Springs, Ga., according to a March 6 report from the Cherokee Tribune & Ledger News.

As medical office building transactions heat up in 2024, here are eight transactions involving 13 buildings in the Eastern half of the U.S. to know: 

Private equity company WindRose Health Investors has acquired Houston-based CardioOne.

Nearly half of U.S. physicians (49%) remain burnt out in 2024, citing their personal lives, professional lives or both according to a Medscape's "Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2024."

Salem (Ohio) Regional Medical Center plans to launch a phased opening of its new SRMC Surgery & Outpatient Pavilion in Columbiana, Ohio, beginning at the end of March, according to a March 5 report from CBS affiliate WKBN.