Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, the parent company of United Surgical Partners International, has appointed Lisa Foo to serve as the company’s first COO. The appointment to the newly created position ...

A state advisory board is recommending a $1 billion investment in New York City-based SUNY Downstate Hospital that includes building an ASC, Gothamist reported June 6. The proposal would keep the ...

There are an array of financial hurdles for ASCs right now, especially those on the smaller side when it comes to reimbursement challenges, rising operational costs and changes to the supply chain to ...

The Oakland County Health Division has confirmed possible measles exposure for patients visiting a medical office building in Rochester Hills, Mich., according to a June 8 report from The Detroit News ...

James Flaherty, MD, an interventional cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, serves as medical director of the hospital’s coronary care unit. He ...

New guidelines from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement advise patients using GLP-1 medications for weight loss to fast for a longer period of time preoperatively, ...

The Hospitals of Providence broke ground on a $21 million medical office building in El Paso, Texas, according to a June 8 report from El Paso Inc. The 60,000-square-foot, three-story building is part ...

The share of physicians working in practices with fewer than five doctors has plummeted over the past decade, according to the American Medical Association’s Physician Practice Benchmark Survey. The ...

Two physicians at the University of Cincinnati Health have completed the first implant of a fully tissue-engineered tricuspid valve in Ohio, WLWT reported June 8. Christiano Spadaccio, MD, and Antonio ...

A woman disfigured after undergoing 11 unnecessary procedures at an ASC has reached a $3.36 million malpractice settlement, according to a June 6 report from Law.com.  What happened?  Becker’s has ...

The CEO of a healthcare software company was convicted for his role in a more than $1 billion scheme that involved fraudulent physicians’ orders to Medicare and other payers, , according to a June 3 ...

In recent years, GI practices have been facing growing financial and clinical challenges at what feel to some like an exponential rate — especially for those who remain independent. This rings ...