Surgeon recruitment and retention is already difficult for many facilities. According to a new study published as an article in press in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, that difficulty will likely continue without effective interventions to stem the tide of surgeon attrition. The retrospective longitudinal cohort study…
Insurance Business reports that Allstate has sued Florida Orthopedics and Neurosurgery, which does business as University Orthopedic Care, along with its two owners, “under federal racketeering law, accusing it of running a kickback-driven billing scheme that cost the insurer millions.” In the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the…
Last week, Florida non-profit health system Lee Health held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the construction of a 60,000-square-foot pediatric ASC in Fort Myers. This week it held another, this time for Lee Health at Veterans Parkway, a 100,000-square-foot “ambulatory clinic” in Cape Coral that it states will deliver “comprehensive”…
Amid the consistent migration of surgical cases from inpatient hospitals to outpatient settings, one North Carolina medical center is, at least temporarily, reversing the tide. Local media outlet CityView reports that Cape Fear Valley Health is seeking permission from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has announced that the new clinical outcomes report from its National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) now provides hospitals risk-adjusted, benchmarked data for emergency general surgery for the first time, in the interest of advancing “data-driven quality improvement in one of the most complex…
On April 21, Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, Mo., announced it had voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and had secured a partner for a sale of the facility. It stated that the move was intended to stabilize its financial position while ensuring uninterrupted patient…
Florida non-profit health system Lee Health announced that construction has started on its new Pediatric Surgery Center and Family Medicine Clinic. The two-story, 60,000-square-foot facility, expected to open in early 2028, will be located adjacent to Lee Health’s Golisano Children’s Hospital and HealthPark Medical Center campus in Fort Myers, Fla.…
OrthoCarolina is stepping up its ASC presence in the Charlotte, N.C., region. The physician-owned-and-led orthopedic practice last week announced plans for a new orthopedic ASC in Steele Creek and an expansion of its existing ASC in Matthews. OrthoCarolina stated that these moves will boost its ASC OR capacity from four to…
A special article titled “Advancing Perioperative Medicine: A Multistakeholder Perspective” published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, the peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), states that “anesthesiology is uniquely positioned to influence the continued development of perioperative medicine.” In a press release about the article, ASA…
An investigation by media outlet Spotlight PA found that “Penn State Health struggled to maintain a usable supply of sterile instruments for the thousands of surgeries it performed at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center throughout 2025 and into this year.” “Internal documents” obtained by Spotlight PA discussed “persistent, mysterious black…
