The Business of Surgery CommonSpirit Health last week signed a definitive agreement to transfer ownership of Ohio-based Trinity Health System, including Trinity Medical Center West and Trinity Medical East in Steubenville, Trinity St. Clairsville Neighborhood Hospital, Trinity Twin City Medical Center in Dennison, and associated clinics, to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). The…
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…
Nonprofit health system Fairview Health Services and Atlas Healthcare Partners, which joins with nonprofit health systems and physicians to develop and operate ASCs, announced the formation of a new joint venture (JV) to develop and operate a network of ASCs across Minnesota and “surrounding regions.” The partners state that their JV…
Oregon health system Asante, which last year closed a community hospital citing financial difficulties, is seeking to “dodge state review” of a surgery center purchase, according to The Lund Report, which covers health news in Oregon and Washington. The outlet reports that Asante “quietly asked the state for permission to…
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…
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…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) expressed its opposition to proposed legislation in Michigan that it says would be “catastrophic” to the state’s ASCs if enacted. The Michigan Health & Hospital Association also expressed its opposition to the bill from the perspective of hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). Michigan HB 5770, introduced last…
The Lund Report, an independent outlet for health news in Oregon and southwest Washington reported on an invite-only session conducted last week where Salem Health and Santiam Hospital & Clinics leaders answered questions from nearly 200 local business, nonprofit and government leaders about their proposed merger. “The future of health care…
An opinion piece published in the journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open focuses on maximizing documentation efficiency and improving reimbursement in acute care surgery (ACS). The article, written by five ACS surgeons, notes that they and their peers are “increasingly asked to navigate complex documentation and reimbursement systems” even…
