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Thomas Wherry, MD, an anesthesiologist, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company dedicated to finding strategic solutions for issues relating to anesthesia care, discusses the emerging trend of ASCs subsidizing or employing anesthesiologists.
Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wis., plans to build an ASC in Wauwatosa, Wis., which would place the facility only a few miles from a competing surgery center, according to The Business Journal of Milwaukee.
Developers who proposed an ASC in Salem, Va., are putting the project on hold after Lewis-Gale Medical Center, also in Salem, indicated it would oppose the plans, according to a report in The Roanoke Times.
ASCs offer employees advantages that they could not find in the surgery department in the hospital, says Greg Zoch, a managing director at Kaye/Bassman, an executive search firm for ASCs and other companies. Here he lists five key differences between ASCs…
Novant Health has received a certificate of need to build an ASC in Holly Springs, N.C., according to reports in The News & Observer and Triangle Business Journal.
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Larry Taylor, president and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare in Birmingham, Ala., has been praised for the outstanding operational results his company achieves for its ASC clients. In 2009, Mr. Taylor was nominated to the Becker's ASC Review list…
Compared with hospitals, relationships between anesthesiologists and surgeons at ASCs are excellent, but there is also an elevated level of expectation at ASCs, says Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director of Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, a company…