Author: Claire Wallace

United Surgical Partners International, part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, reported $771 million in net operating revenues in its second quarter results on July 21.

A new clinic building in Fairbanks, Alaska, opened July 19 for the Alaska Native population, adding special services. including an ASC, urgent care, radiology audiology and more. 

The global GI market is expected to reach a $43,712.47 million valuation by 2028, growing at a rate of 3.33 percent according to a July report from Market Growth Reports. 

Seventy healthcare data breaches affecting 500 or more records were reported in June to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, according to a July 20 report from HIPAA Journal. 

Newark, N.J.-based Beth Israel Medical Center, part of West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health, has named Smruti Mohanty, MD, as the new division director of gastroenterology, ROI-NJ reported July 21. 

A group of physicians at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine have started doing trials of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a treatment used for decompression sickness in scuba divers, to help patients with ulcerative colitis, ABC affiliate WQAD reported on July 20. 

Medline held a ribbon cutting ceremony July 20 for its new 1.4 million-square-foot medical distribution center in Grayslake, Ill., thought to be the largest medical-grade distribution center in the country. 

Michigan endocrinologist Bashar Kiami, MD, has pleaded guilty to tax evasion, the Justice Department said July 19. 

As ASCs are becoming popular investments among both physicians and corporations, more ASCs across the country are partnering with or being acquired by larger ventures. 

Health First received zoning approval from the Brevard County Commission on July 19 for its proposed $508 million hospital and wellness village in Merritt Island, Fla., Florida Today reported.