Tri-State Surgery Center, located in Dubuque, Iowa, is a physician/hospital joint-venture ambulatory surgery center. The ASC is managed by Health Inventures. It is a multi-specialty facility with three ORs, two GI suites and on track to do about 5,000 cases…
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