Ambulatory Surgery Centers Novant Health has completed the final phase of its South Asheville Medical Park in North Carolina. A new ASC and imaging center will open this fall, “bringing together women’s care, cancer care, imaging and outpatient surgery in one convenient location.” South Asheville Medical Park is home to providers such as…
DISC Surgery Center at Carlsbad and Sharp HealthCare ("Sharp") have announced a strategic alliance which will find the ASC co-branded as Sharp DISC Surgery Center Carlsbad. This partnership, which builds upon DISC’s previous collaboration with what is now Sharp Tri-City Medical Center, is expected to “further expand North County San…
Indiana healthcare system Henry Community Health (HCH) has broken ground on a new ASC in Knightstown. The site is on a campus HCH purchased in 2020 and has since undergone a phased development plan. The first phase, a 26,000-square-foot facility offering primary care, orthopedics and urology services, opened in September…
At Periop Leader Week, two veteran ASC leaders will test your knowledge on legal, regulatory and compliance issues—and explain why you got each multiple-choice answer right (or wrong). Everyone who attends can be a contestant; simply scan a QR code when you enter to access the game show app. At…
Penn Medicine, Independence Blue Cross, and Regent Surgical have announced what the parties call a “first-of-its-kind strategic partnership” designed to “rapidly expand access to high-quality outpatient surgical care” across the Philadelphia region. The partners state that they will collaborate through a yet-unnamed new company to “support the creation” of “at…
AI may prove consequential “in the distributed, high-volume world of outpatient care, because it changes not only how we draw these buildings but how they perform.” So writes Charles Michelson, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, president of Saltz Michelson Architects, in an article for South Florida Hospital News & Healthcare Report.…
The American Hospital Association’s American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) has released a new resource to “help facilities leaders modernize maintenance practices, improve operational reliability and support safe, uninterrupted patient care.” Health Care Maintenance and Operations: The Facilities Management Handbook, the newest addition to ASHE’s Health Care Facilities Management Handbook…
Atrium Health announced that it has completed an expansion and reopening of Atrium Health Denver (N.C.) Surgery Center—which it says is the only ASC in Lincoln County, N.C. The expansion of the multispecialty ASC added a dedicated endoscopy suite, three new preoperative rooms and additional clinical space. “This milestone reflects years of planning to…
SGMC Health has acquired Valdosta Foot & Ankle Clinic in South Georgia, and will rename the practice, which includes an Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC)-accredited ASC, as SGMC Podiatry. The practice will continue to be run by Michael Wallace, DPM, and Devin Daugherty, DPM. SGMC Health states that…
Mount Sinai Health System announced that it will open Peakpoint Central Nassau Surgery Center in Carle Place, N.Y., on Long Island this month. The 20,400-square-foot multispecialty ASC will offer gastroenterology, gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic and spine surgery, otolaryngology, pain management, plastic surgery, podiatry, and urology procedures. A joint venture among Mount…
