The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine in Huntington, W.Va., has received initial accreditation to create a new anesthesiology residency program. The program will provide clinical training in anesthesiology, including perioperative medicine, critical care, airway management, pain control…
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St. Louis-based Ascension, which signed a definitive agreement on June 17 to acquire ASC operator AmSurg, reported a fiscal 2025 operating loss of $490.9 million (a -1.6% operating margin), a significant improvement from its $1.8 billion loss (-6.3% margin) the…
Colorectal cancer incidence among younger adults is climbing rapidly, creating an urgent public health challenge. U.S. CRC cases in people under 50 have risen about 2% per year since 2011, and younger patients are more likely to present with aggressive,…
Benjamin Levy III, MD, a gastroenterologist at University of Chicago Medicine, joined Becker’s to discuss strategies to keep patient care high-quality and local while GI consolidation picks up. Editor’s note: This interview was edited lightly for clarity and length. Question:…
Here are four recent updates from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, parent company of ASC chain United Surgical Partners International: 1. Tenet opened a new 54-bed hospital in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Sept. 4. Florida Coast Medical Center is the sixth…
Amid mounting reimbursement pressures and rising operational costs, ASC leaders are looking to models for managing anesthesia costs and staffing that will sustain them into the future. Peter Bravos, MD, chief medical officer of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health’s surgery center…
Pediatric gastroenterologist Justin DeVito, DO, has joined Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Dr. DeVito has clinical interests in inflammatory bowel disease and eosinophilic esophagitis, according to a Sept. 18 system news release. He previously served as a…
Charleston, W.Va.-based Vandalia Health has added Mina Shnoda, MD, to its cardiovascular team. Dr. Shnoda previously trained and taught at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, and completed his internal medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, according to…
A man has been accused of threatening to shoot an ASC in Nashville, Tenn., causing the center to close temporarily, WSMV 4 reported Sept. 18. Police told the publication that Emil Jawad, a 37-year-old man, called the Tristar Cardiovascular Surgery…
Las Vegas-based Nevada Heart and Vascular Center has added Thomas Lambert, MD, to its team. Dr. Lambert is a cardiologist with more than three decades of experience in private practice, according to a Sept. 2 news release from the center. …