Author: Staff

UPMC is hiring at its newly built surgery center in Monroeville, Pa.

Jeff Snodgrass will be the new president of AmSurg, one of the country's largest ASC operators and the ambulatory division of Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare.

Here's how Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Nashville-based Surgery Partners' shares have fluctuated over the last five days.

Twenty-two ASCs were opened or announced in August:

Mayo Clinic researchers and NASA Frontier Development Lab scientists are working to fine-tune an artificial intelligence algorithm that detects spatio-temporal patterns related to colorectal cancer progression.

Cardinal Health named Sheri Edison to its board of directors as an independent director.

CRH Medical acquired a 51 percent interest stake in Wilmington, N.C.-based Coastal Carolina Sedation Associates.

The board of trustees of the University of Illinois in Chicago and Mesirow Financial entered into a public finance and credit tenant lease with structured debt products to fund the university's Outpatient Surgery Center and Specialty Clinics building.

Vincennes, Ind.-based The Good Samaritan acquired the building that housed the former First Street Surgery Center for $875,000, TriStateHomepage.com reports.

Atlanta-based EyeSouth Partners acquired San Antonio-based Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates, its second acquisition in the state.