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Floyd County in Indiana is considering imposing a one-year moratorium on the establishment of any new pain management clinics, according to a Courier-Journal report.

Jung-Woo Ma, MD, an interventional pain specialist, has joined Tri-State Pain Institute in Erie, Pa., according to a Go Erie report.

Jeff Leland if the CEO of Cincinnati-based Blue Chip Surgical Partners, an ASC management and development company that focuses on spine, multi-specialty and physician/hospital joint-venture ASCs.

Valerie Whitehead, a former surgery center director at Mayo Clinic Health Systems in Eau Claire, Wis., is facing new charges for impersonating a nurse, according to a WQOW TV report.

Children bathed daily with chlorhexidine gluconate were 36 percent less likely to have a bloodstream infection compared with children bathed using standard practices, according to a study in The Lancet.

The North Carolina Division of Public Health has published its first public report of statewide healthcare‐associated infections.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will discuss eight quality issues in a new series of reports called "Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science."

The American Hospital Association has suggested the Measure Applications Partnership, part of the National Quality Forum, enhance alignment of quality measurement reporting and payment efforts, according to an AHA News Now report.

CMS is seeking information on a patient experience survey for hospital outpatient surgery departments/ambulatory surgery centers and a family member/friend experience survey on hospice care, according to requests in the Federal Register.

Here are 36 notable surgery centers that perform a majority of GI & endoscopy procedures. Note: Surgery centers are listed in alphabetical order. Centers do not and cannot pay to be selected for Becker's ASC Review lists. The list is…