ASC Leader Newspaper The Sun Chronicle reports on plans to build a joint-venture, single-specialty orthopedic ASC at Reservoir Landing, a shopping and business center in Mansfield, Mass. Sturdy Health – University Orthopedics Center for Orthopedic Surgery, a joint venture between Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Mass., and University Orthopedics, would join neighbors at…
A recent Philadelphia Inquirer article takes a close look at the emergence of cardiovascular ASCs in its region. The title: “New Philadelphia-area cardiovascular surgery centers are pulling profitable procedures from hospitals and charging less.” The article notes that Pennsylvania is the first Northeastern U.S. state to allow the practice, and…
According to a report in The Daily Bruin, the UC Board of Regents yesterday approved a $298.2 million budget Wednesday to convert an El Segundo, Calif., office building into a UCLA Health complex called UCLA Health South Bay. According to the campus newspaper, the renovated building will contain a Sports…
Wondering why your ASC wasn’t selected as one of U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers? Or was your ASC selected, and you’d like to learn more about why? The media outlet has posted a Q&A with the lead of the project: its chief of health analysis and…
Would you like to address your peers in the perioperative leadership community? Have you solved a problem, struggled with a challenge, identified a trend, felt a long-running frustration you can't contain for much longer? Have you accomplished something great, and want to tell the industry about it? Have you always…
The annual Certified Nurses Day takes place Wednesday, March 19, 2026. It’s a day to celebrate your certified nurses’ knowledge, talent, spirit and commitment to patient safety and excellence in health care. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), which organizes, promotes and provides resources for Certified Nurses Day, encourages…
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers ratings. Using data provided by health insights provider Arcadia, U.S. News evaluated 4,421 ASCs nationwide. That’s well short of the total number of ASCs in the U.S., due to the fact that the ratings focus exclusively on…
Everyone knows the time-honored cliché about surgeons who act out as the ego-driven superstars of the OR, and to whom everyone else on the perioperative team defers or even fears. In one periop leader’s experience, that dynamic has changed. “The physician of today is not the physician of 10 years…
ASC development and management firm Compass Surgical Partners, community health system Baptist Health, and multispecialty healthcare organization Coastal Health this week announced a collective partnership with 15 area physicians to operate Middleburg Surgery Center in Jacksonville, Fla. The partners have assumed ownership of an existing 5,500-square-foot facility with two ORs that…
Custom Surgical Partners and Ambulatory Strategies last week announced a formal strategic partnership to create an expanded national and international healthcare consulting platform focused exclusively on the ASC industry. Combined, the organizations state that they have supported the development of over 150 ASCs, with centers in all 50 U.S. states and…
