Two ASCs publicly reported data security incidents over the last week. Covenant Health’s Advanced Family Surgery Center, formally known as Surgery Center of Oak Ridge (Tenn.), LLC, stated that “on or around November 26, 2025,” it “became aware of a network intrusion that affected a limited number of systems” and…
Georgia TV stations WRDW and WAGT report that, according to Defense Health Agency (DHA) Director Vice Adm. Darin K. Via, the U.S. Department of War intends to “transition” Eisenhower Army Medical Center (AMC) at Fort Gordon, Ga., to an Ambulatory Care Center. The transition would include “the permanent closure of inpatient…
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre and “other international and U.S. partners,” has released guidance for organizations on adopting agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The guidance, titled “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services,” outlines “key security challenges…
A narrative review article published this week in ACOS General Surgery zeroes in on frailty as a surgical vital sign, with discussion of risk stratification and outcomes for these patients in general surgery. The authors, largely from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, note that although frailty has…
Community members, project partners, local leaders, and media were on hand as Slocum Orthopedics hosted a public Girder Signing event over the weekend at the construction site of what will become its new orthopedics ASC in Eugene, Ore. “The event marks an important construction milestone for the new physician-owned orthopedic surgery…
The ASC Quality Collaboration (ASCQC), an independent, nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to advancing patient safety and quality of care delivery in ASCs, has announced that its ASC Safety & Quality Assessment is now open for its second year. Nearly 400 ASCs participated in the 2025 assessment, and ASCQC hopes even more…
According to numerous published reports out of the Constitution State, University of Connecticut Health Center has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Bristol Health to take over Bristol Hospital and make it part of the UConn Health Community Network. CT Mirror reports that the deal is on track to…
Despite all of the polarization and upheaval in our country, our five million-plus nurses remained admired like no other profession by Americans. In fact, nursing has been named the most trusted profession in the country for 24 years and counting in Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professions Poll. Surgery,…
The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center has become the country’s first VA medical center recognized by the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Quality Verification Program (QVP). The ACS QVP provides a standardized method for “establishing, measuring, and improving a hospital’s quality infrastructure across all surgical…
I’ve attended two excellent conferences over the last month (AORN and HSPA, to be specific) and it’s a refrain I heard time and again: More and more perioperative leaders are now paying out-of-pocket for conference travel and registration. That got our team thinking about taking a closer look at this…
