GI & Endoscopy

Northwest Community Healthcare's Medical Group announced the addition of gastroenterologist Ami Shah Behara, MD, to its network of physicians.

Covenant Surgical Partners has announced partnerships with five new surgery centers.

Here are seven GI or endoscopy-driven ambulatory surgery center transactions announced in the last 30 days.

John I. Allen, MD, MBA, national quality advisor for Minnesota Gastroenterology in St. Paul, Minn., will assume the position of clinical chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on April 1.

Waldorf Endoscopy Center and the GI Associates of Maryland have announced the center is relocating to a new facility on Old Washington Road.

Robert "Chip" Williams, MD, will join the Lumberton Children's Clinic as a pediatric gastroenterologist in mid-February, according to a Robesonian report.

Ann Marie Stephenson, MD, has started working as a gastroenterologist at Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco, Wash., according to a Burlington County Times report.

Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, Ind., selected ProVation Medical Software for its eight-hospital system, according to a Fort Mill Times report.

The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery has named Excela Health a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times report.

The colorectal surgeons at Los Angeles Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates have designed a treatment protocol and are collaborating with primary care physicians, infectious disease specialists, gastroenterologists and outpatient surgery centers to make fecal microbial transplantation available to patients, according…