Author: Claire Wallace

Private-equity backed management company AmSurg has acquired Las Vegas-based Alta Rose Surgery Center in partnership with Comprehensive EyeCare Partners, one of the nation's largest vision care practice management organizations.

Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Northside Hospital Gwinnett has opened its Advanced Center for Interventional Pulmonary and Gastrointestinal Services. 

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is close to opening a new ASC In Layton, Utah, on its Intermountain Layton Hospital campus. 

There are big changes happening in the healthcare industry in 2024, from the growing popularity of artificial intelligence to increased consolidation among practices nationwide. 

Management services provider U.S. Anesthesia Partners has launched its own nonprofit to support employees in need. 

Ground has been broken on a 60,000-square-foot medical office building in Drexel Hill, Pa., according to a June 17 report from The Daily Record.

In early March, Peterborough, N.H.-based Monadnock Community Hospital opened its first gastroenterology department and has already served 900 patients, according to a June 17 report from the The Keene Sentinel.

Just over a year ago, gastroenterology company United Digestive made the decision to end its partnership with private equity backer Frazier Healthcare Partners, which created the platform in tandem with Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates in 2018. 

Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer do not require more frequent colonoscopy surveillance than recommended by current guidelines compared to patients with average-onset colorectal cancer, according to a May study published in the journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 

Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health has opened an outpatient eye surgery clinic that specializes in LASIK surgery.