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Johnson City, Tenn.-based Watauga Orthopedics received a certificate of need to develop a $17.3 million orthopedic surgery center in Johnson City, local news affiliate WJHL.com reports.

Bridgeport (Conn.) Hospital partnered with Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health Heart and Vascular Center's cardiovascular surgery team to offer an array of surgical procedures, the hospital announced Oct. 27.

COVID-19 is spreading rapidly throughout Tennessee, as the state has the ninth-highest rate of new cases in the U.S., local NBC affiliate 10News reports.

Doximity noted minor physician compensation growth in the last year in its 2020 physician compensation report.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Borland Groover broke ground on a $10 million surgery center in St. Johns County Oct. 26, its third surgery center in Northeast Florida, the Jacksonville Daily Record reports.

David Greenwald, MD, was elected as the 2020-21 president of the American College of Gastroenterology during the college's virtual 2020 meeting, Oct. 23-28.

A team of vascular surgeons from Columbus-based The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center were the first in the state to perform a minimally invasive treatment to repair aortic aneurysms involving visceral vessels in patients.

Since June, Becker's ASC Review has reported on five proposed surgery center developments that were met with opposition:

Hospital and health system executives surveyed in January and February saw competition as a top cause of patient leakage, according to a new report by Central Logic.

A medical office building and ASC in Columbia, S.C., was sold to outpatient healthcare real estate firm Flagship Healthcare Properties, according to an Oct. 28 announcement.