Author: Patsy Newitt

Tower Surgical Partners named Cresia Walker as its first COO, the company said Oct. 11. 

Supply chain industry trade groups are warning of a "system collapse" if governments don't step in.

Irving, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia has expanded its services with three health systems — Mon Health, Piedmont Healthcare and Texas Health, the company said Oct. 12. 

While CMS has made some policies directing surgeries to ASCs, it has also developed regulations ASC leaders see as unnecessary obstacles to outpatient procedure migration. 

A researcher from Saint Louis University School of Medicine received a roughly $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study short bowel syndrome, the university said Oct. 8. 

EagleBridge Capital arranged $8.612 million in mortgage financing for the Chelmsford (Mass.) Medical and Surgical Center, New England Real Estate Journal reported Oct. 8. 

GI Alliance inked a deal with Atlantis-based Gastroenterology Associates of Florida, the company announced Oct. 11.  

OrthoSC recently began offering robotic outpatient knee surgeries at its Carolina Bone & Joint Surgery Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Spectrum Health has filed a certificate of need for a $23.2 million cardiovascular ASC in Grand Rapids, Mich., MiBiz reported Oct. 11. 

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson underwent surgery on an injured middle finger at the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan Jobe Surgery Center in Los Angeles Oct. 8.