Author: Claire Wallace

Cancer diagnoses in patients younger than 50 have seen a major jump in the last 20 years, and colon cancer is no exception. 

Columbus-based OhioHealth has opened a two-story, 20,000-square-foot medical office building in Jerome, Ohio, to serve the communities of Dublin, Marysville and Plain City. 

Gastroenterologist Vivek Trivedi, MD, has been named a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, according to a Feb. 19 report from the Iredell Free News.

A Midland, Mich.-based building housing the Great Lakes Bay Surgery & Endoscopy Center has sold for $9.8 million, according to a Feb. 16 report from REBusiness Online.

The volume of ASCs in Massachusetts is well below the national average, according to a Feb. 15 report from local news station WWLP based on data shared with state health regulators. 

Today, nearly two-thirds of American hospitals and a substantial number of ASCs nationwide are owned by large health systems. 

Around 33% of hospitalists are feeling burned out in 2024, down from 36% in 2023, according to Medscape's 2024 "Hospitalist Burnout and Depression Report," published Feb. 16. 

New Jersey physician Mohammad Zubair, MD, is seeking approval for a three-story medical office building in Edison, N.J., according to a Feb. 16 report from My Central Jersey.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha has added Fedja Rochling, MD, as its division chief of gastroenterology and hepatology. 

ASCs have several pros for both patients and physicians, including more buy-in opportunities, more physician autonomy and lower cost of care. As the popularity and prevalence of ASCs continues to expand year over year, the facilities hold the upper hand…