Category: ASC News

AMA’s guide to practice efficiency and lower staff burnout

The American Medical Association’s Private Practice Playbook offers solutions to optimize practice workflow, including ways to boost efficiency, increase time spent with each patient and more. 

What causes physicians’ bad behavior? 8 report findings

Most physicians attribute their colleagues’ bad behavior to general personal arrogance, according to Medscape’s 2022 “Physicians Behaving Badly” report.

How to get back to the ASC heydays 

For Greg Horner, MD, managing partner at Pleasanton, Calif.-based HealthPoint Ambulatory Surgery Co., 2008 was the heyday of the ASC industry despite the country’s economic downturn.  

6 ASC moves in Florida

Florida is one of the most active states for ASCs and medical real estate.

Nevada governor directs $40M for ASC at UNLV medical school

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and the state interim finance committee have awarded the University of Nevada Las Vegas Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine $70 million to construct an ASC and a pathology lab, according to an Aug. 19 report from the Las Veg…

Georgia physician withdraws guilty plea for illegal drug distribution 

Thomas Sachy, MD, who pleaded guilty to illegally dispensing drugs in 2021 is withdrawing his plea, The Macon Telegraph reported Aug. 18. 

15 medical schools that leave students with the most debt

Medical school graduates are often saddled with large amounts of debt at the end of their education, and the class of 2021 was no exception. 

Bad physician workplace behavior: What their colleagues are noticing 

Eighty-six percent of physicians have witnessed other physicians bully or harass clinicians or staff in the last five years, according to Medscape’s 2022 report “Physicians Behaving Badly.”

Long Island ASC expanding into new 13,233-square-foot building

DAY-OP Center of Long Island (N.Y.) is expanding into a new 13,233-square-foot leased building in Woodbury (N.Y.), according to an Aug. 19 report from Long Island Business News.

ChristianaCare, DSU in talks to open Delaware’s first medical school

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare and Delaware State University are in an ongoing discussion to open the first medical school in the state of Delaware, according to an Aug. 18 report from Delaware Public Radio.