Category: ASC News

As the MLB approaches the second half of its 2022 season, Becker’s has reported on players from three different teams needing surgery since Aug.1.

Ventura, Calif.-based Community Memorial Health System received a $100,000 gift from Mechanics Bank to purchase an advanced C-arm, according to an Aug. 15 report from the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. 

Pursuing equal payment to hospital outpatient departments and using technology to increase efficiency are among the trends healthcare leaders recommend ASCs adopt.

Even with a falling unemployment rate, U.S. companies are still laying off workers. 

Southpoint Surgery Center in Jacksonville, Fla., a 34,029-square-foot medical center with a large ASC, has been sold to REIT healthcare for just over $18.5 million. 

Geisinger and two more hospitals and health systems that have opened or have plans to open ASCs that Becker’s has reported on since Aug. 2:

The COVID-19 pandemic spurred an economic downturn, and many ASCs are looking to the global recession of 2008 as a blueprint for crafting future growth plans. 

A jury found that an Abingdon, Md.-based pain physician was not liable in the death of a patient who was injected with a contaminated steroid during a procedure at an ASC, The Daily Record reported Aug. 10. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente reported a net loss of $1.3 billion for the second quarter of this year. 

About 528,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in July, nearly doubling economist projections, and bringing the unemployment rate down to 3.5 percent.