Supply Chain

Smith+Nephew plans to launch its remote physical therapy platform, Aria Home PT, for ASCs in early 2021.

  Northfield, Ill.-based medical supply company Medline is exploring Hammond, La., as a site for a distribution center as plans in a nearby city face obstacles, according to an Oct. 19 report from nola.com. 

Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ethicon, will pay $5.5 million to settle allegations that their marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices violated Oregon's consumer protection laws, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Oct. 16.

Alpharetta, Ga.-based Surgical Information Systems received a major equity investment from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Accel-KKR, according to an Oct. 15 press release.

Ophthalmic ASCs saw a sharp rise in expenditure due to the use of personal protective equipment and other COVID-19-related practices, according to a recent study conducted by Progressive Surgical Solutions, a division of BSM Consulting.

Surglogs partnered with Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth to provide regulatory compliance software to all UCHealth facilities, the company announced Oct. 14.

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Testing all pediatric patients for COVID-19 before they undergo procedures requiring anesthesia may help conserve personal protective equipment, according to research presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' 2020 annual meeting.

COVID-19 has changed the way surgery centers view disposables. Before the pandemic, disposables were a part of ambulatory surgical center (ASC) processes, but many reusable items were common.

Traverse City, Mich.-based Copper Ridge Surgery Center acquired the da Vinci Surgical System after considering it "for the last couple of years," center CEO Tina Piotrowski, BSN, said, the Traverse City Record Eagle reports.