California ASC adds robotic surgery system
Sansum Clinic, now part of Sutter Health, announced that Foothill Surgery Center is one of the first outpatient surgery centers in the country to use the da Vinci 5 system for robotic surgeries, marking a new era in outpatient surgical care.
Doctors at the center believe operating with this robotic platform raises the bar for minimally invasive surgical care.
The precision of the Da Vinci 5 will empower surgeons to operate with much greater accuracy and will also allow doctors to manipulate instruments in ways that are not possible with the human hand.
Ambulatory surgery centers drive Tenet’s strong Q4 results
Tenet Healthcare’s strong Q4 revenue and income results are driven in large part by its partnership and growth in ambulatory surgery centers, according to Healthcare Finance News. Tenet partners with United Surgical Partners International (USPI), among the largest ambulatory surgery platforms in the United States. USPI adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization) grew 17% in 2024, fueled by a 7.8% increase in same-facility revenues and 19% year-over-year growth in high-acuity cases such as total joint replacements, according to Healthcare Finance News and Tenet Chairman and CEO Saumya Sutaria in Tenet’s Feb. 12 earnings call.
Nearly 70 ambulatory surgical centers were added in 2024, and Tenet intends to invest approximately $250 million each year towards M&A in the ambulatory space and anticipates adding 10 to 12 stand-alone facilities this year.
Sutter Health debuts flagship ASC campus
Sutter Health plans to construct a flagship campus in Emeryville, Calif., that will feature an ambulatory care complex and a new medical center with 200 beds.
The 1.3 million-square-foot medical campus represents part of a more than $1 billion investment to expand services in the East Bay, according to a Feb. 19 press release.
The new ambulatory complex will feature outpatient clinics offering neuroscience, rheumatology, pulmonary, dermatology and non-chemotherapy infusion. Other services and facilities include an orthopedic center, physical therapy, ophthalmology, a women’s center, pediatrics, digestive diseases and surgery care, an OB/GYN graduate medical education clinic, urology, ENT care, audiology, an endoscopy center, urgent care, imaging services and a laboratory. The first ambulatory patients are expected in 2028.
In addition, the Alta Bates, Calif.-based facility will add an ASC, as will the Summit campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif.