North Texas Surgi-Center in Wichita Falls Falls, Texas, will close Dec. 5, according to a report from the Times Record News and KFDX.
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The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has ruled that Elliot Health System is not required to obtain certificate of need review for its Elliot Medical Center at Londonderry medical office building project. However, in a concurring opinion for case No.…
Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding and other related information technology services, recently gathered data from roughly 30 ASCs and surgical hospitals, to determine some average statistics relating to patient charts in ASCs.
The latest issue of PeerPoints, a newsletter published by AllMed Healthcare Management, is now available and includes features on stopping disruptive behavior, eight steps to policy and procedure development, a malpractice case and excellent results of AllMed's annual hospital peer…
A new surgery center is scheduled to open in Tomball, Texas, a suburb of Houston, in April of 2009.
The SurgiCenter of Mansfield (Ohio) has celebrated the 10th anniversary since the first procedure was performed at the center, according to the Mansfield News Journal.
1. Do you think anesthesiologists should be employees of ASCs, independent contractors or completely outsourced? Russ Greene (RG): We hire our anesthesia staff, but have not let them buy shares. I have only had one ASC that I managed that…
The latest issues of Common Ground, a newsletter published by The McShane Companies, are now available and include a feature on healthcare construction trends in today’s struggling economy.
Of interest to GI surgery centers, Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. has announced a voluntary recall of 12,000 units of infants’ Mylicon gas relief dye free drops as a precaution after determining that some bottles could include metal fragments…
Here is the distribution of surgery centers and hospitals by population levels (with percent of total number of each facility type in parentheses), according to SDI’s 2008 Outpatient Surgery Center Market Report.