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Mayo Clinic Health System added about 150 colonoscopies a month in Eau Claire, Wis., by moving appropriate patients from anesthesia care to nurse-administered conscious sedation. The change started with a staffing problem. “We had a massive shortage of CRNAs post-COVID,”…

ASCs are still using sign-on bonuses to recruit nurses. Bonus offers grew common during the COVID-19 pandemic, when competition for nurses heated up. While the market has since cooled in many locations, some ASCs still advertise them in job postings.…

Distalmotion, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based medtech company, secured a senior secured term loan facility of up to $70 million from Perceptive Advisors to expand its Dexter robotic surgery system across U.S. ambulatory surgery centers. Distalmotion will use the capital to expand…

Private equity firms acquired 89 U.S. orthopedic practices from 2016 to 2023, and by 2023, 4.8% of the nation’s orthopedic surgeons worked in a private equity-affiliated group, according to an Oct. 15 study published in JBJS Open Access. Researchers from…

Healthcare providers and state lawmakers defended West Virginia’s certificate-of-need law Oct. 20 as Gov. Patrick Morrisey pushes for its repeal, WV News reported Oct. 21. The discussion took place in Morgantown, W.Va., at the annual conference of the West Virginia…

Schenectady, N.Y.-based Ellis Medicine has signed employment agreements with 22 cardiologists now affiliated with Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter’s Health Partners, according to a statement shared with Becker’s Oct. 21.  The physicians will begin practicing as Ellis employees on Jan. 1,…

Kaiser Permanente broke ground Oct. 20 on a 187,000-square-foot comprehensive care center in Folsom, Calif., local NBC affiliate KCRA reported Oct. 20.  The outpatient facility will house 60 clinical offices offering primary and specialty care, imaging, lab and pharmacy services.…

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