10 Surgery Center Openings & Approvals in CON States

Here are 10 new surgery centers that have received certificate of need approvals or opened in CON states.

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Hilton Head Hospital sought a certificate of need for an ambulatory surgery center in Bluffton, S.C., that has been met with opposition from St. Joseph's/Candler Health System and Beaufort Memorial Hospital. The CON was denied in February but then approved later this year. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control also voted unanimously to uphold the CON award in May.

Lake Ridge Ambulatory Surgery Center is set to open later this year in Virginia, a certificate of need state. The 9,500-square-foot surgery center is a joint venture between area physicians, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center and Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners. The facility will be located on the second floor of Sentara Lake Ridge and include orthopedic, spine and pain management procedures. The medical campus also features 24-hour emergency care, advanced imaging and laboratory services.

New York physicians have received approval for a new ambulatory surgery center in Bayside, N.Y., with four operating rooms. The 13,460-square-foot project was challenged by Flushing (N.Y.) Hospital, but the physicians were able to receive the certificate of need early this year. The $7.4 million surgery center will include 23 physicians who will have 50 percent ownership while four individuals who operate other area ASCs will own 20 percent and NYEE Holding Corp., will be a third partner.

Maury Regional Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., received unanimous approval from the Health Services and development Agency for a certificate of need to build an ambulatory surgery center in its new Spring Hill facility. The 62,365-square-foot facility was approved in April and is expected to be completed his month. It will be owned by MRMC and operated by Vanderbilt Operative Services. The multispecialty surgery center will include orthopedics, gynecology, ophthalmology, urology and otolaryngology. MRMC hopes the surgery center, along with other services at the new facility, will attract more physicians to the area.

Northside Hospital has opened Northside-Forsyth Outpatient Surgery in Cumming, Ga. Georgia is a certificate of need state. The surgery center treated its first patient in June at the new 14,175-square-foot facility. The surgery center includes four operating rooms and an endoscopy suite. The multispecialty ASC hosts general surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, podiatry, otolaryngology and plastic surgery, among other specialties.

Prairie SurgiCare was opened by Richard Kube, MD, founder of Prairie Spine & Pain Institute in Peoria, Ill., in April. Illinois is a certificate of need state, and from start to finish the surgery center took three months. It received a perfect accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. Minimally invasive spine surgery and pain management procedures are performed at the 5,700-square-foot center, which also includes an integrated care program and quality of life components for pain patients.

St. Charles (Mo.) Surgery Center opened earlier this year in Missouri, a certificate of need state. The construction took five months and was finalized in January 2012. The ophthalmology-focused surgery center is owned and operated by Victor Clever, MD, John Clever, MD, and Joseph Gira, MD. It includes two surgery suites, a pre- and postoperative area, exam rooms, administrative areas and a large reception room.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center received certificate of need approval from North Carolina regulators for a 10,000-square-foot surgery center. The North Carolina Division of Heath Service Regulations initially denied the CON application in 2011, claiming the medical center overstated the number of cases that would be performed at the new facility. However, the $6.8 million, three operating room surgery center was approved after the medical center appealed the decision. The surgery center will be on Wake Forest Baptist's new campus in Clemmons.

WellStar Health System in Marieta, Ga., received certificate of need approval from the State Department of Community Health for an ambulatory surgery center in late 2011. The health system was originally approved in early 2011, but was challenged by the Atlanta-based Northside Hospital. The facility received a second approval as part of the health system's East Cobb Health Park, an $80 million project that includes other services as well. The health system hopes to open East Cobb Health Park in the summer of 2013.

WNY Medical Management
, a group of physicians, has received approval from the New York Department of Health to develop a new surgery center in Buffalo, N.Y. The certificate of need application was filed in 2009 and plans call for a single-specialty pain management center. The 3,400-square-foot ASC will include two procedure rooms, which will be constructed within an existing medical office building. When the CON was approved earlier this year, the group projected performing 2,000 procedures in its first year. The estimated cost on the project was $405,000.

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