Matt Parr of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit that researches the impact of private equity (PE) investment in health care and other essential services, last week published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times that blames PE for “dismantling” three PE-owned Chicagoland hospitals, and calls for the state of…
University of Iowa (UI) Health Care has commemorated the one-year anniversary of the opening of its orthopedics-focused North Liberty, Iowa, campus. In addition to orthopedic care and surgical services, the facility also provides physical therapy and rehabilitation, an emergency department, a full-service pharmacy, diagnostic imaging, and lab services. Over its…
Advanced Spine and Pain (ASAP) has provided aerial footage and information regarding its soon-to-open 12,075-square-foot outpatient clinic and ASC in Phoenix. It says the new facility “marks the evolution of ASAP into a regional leader for a five-specialty care continuum.” Those five specialties are interventional pain care; orthopedic and spine…
The University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics has posted a Q&A with one of the authors of a study that examines the ongoing shit of surgeries to the outpatient setting. The study, “Inpatient to Outpatient Shifts in Surgical Care: Persistence of COVID-19 Era Changes and Socioeconomic…
Arkansas news organization Talk Business & Politics (TB&P) reports that a group of state legislators, seeking to “better understand and address constituent concerns” about the future of Baptist Health’s Fort Smith hospital, met with Baptist Health leadership last week for a “listening session” to discuss the situation. State Rep. Ryan…
A general surgeon has posted an opinion piece in General Surgery News that focuses on how rising physician litigation is “reshaping American health care.” Kourtney Kemp, MD, FACS, a general surgeon with Minnesota physician group Specialists in General Surgery, writes, “Healthcare costs are rising, access is shrinking, clinical complexity is increasing,…
ASCO Daily News, a publication of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), has published an article about how “evolving perioperative management” of bladder and kidney cancers is advancing genitourinary (GU) treatment. “The standard of care in bladder cancer treatment is evolving rapidly, with perioperative antibody-drug conjugates such as enfortumab…
Salisbury, Md., CBS affiliate WBOC-TV reports that a Talbot County jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a 76-year-old patient who claims a general surgeon at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center (UMSMC) in Easton, Md., failed to properly diagnose and treat his stomach issue during surgery, which led to permanent…
The Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association (RCPA), a 400-member Pennsylvania health and human services trade association, endorsed an aspect of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fiscal year 2027 hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule. Its statement regards CMS’ proposal to expand its Comprehensive Care for Joint…
Want to take a look inside a soon-to-open cardiovascular ASC? Lifestyle media outlet Bham Now has toured and shared photos of Birmingham Heart & Vascular Surgery Center, which is opening soon in an existing building on the UAB St. Vincent’s East campus in Birmingham, Ala. The article, titled “How Birmingham…
