Author: Patsy Newitt

University of Vermont Medical Center is reopening a previously shuttered outpatient surgery center this fall, a year after it closed because of air circulation problems, VTDiggerr reported Oct. 11. 

Pennsylvania resident Ruth Clarke traveled 1,300 miles for hip surgery at Surgery Center of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City for an operation with upfront pricing she could better afford, Sunday news program Full Measure reported Oct. 3. 

Real estate developer Meridian purchased a medical office building with an on-site surgery center in Beverly Hills, Calif., the company announced Oct. 8. 

Many gastroenterologists are worried about a physician shortage and colonoscopy backlogs in the coming years. 

Buffalo (N.Y.) Surgery Center submitted a certificate of need to expand into a new facility, Buffalo Business First reported Oct. 8. 

Chesapeake Regional Surgery Center in Virginia Beach, Va., became the first freestanding ASC in the state to perform a minimally invasive outpatient prostatectomy with the da Vinci Si robotic surgical system, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare said Oct. 7. 

Hillsboro, Ohio-based Adena Greenfield Medical Center broke ground on a $3 million medical office building, the center said Oct. 7. 

A building housing the Specialty Surgery Center in Nashville, Tenn., sold for $6.6 million, Nashville Post reported Oct. 8. 

CMS plans to issue a rule that will require ASCs, along with all other healthcare providers, to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for staff as a condition of participating in Medicare. 

A North Carolina ASC added two robotic-assisted surgical systems one year after opening.