Here are seven new joint venture ASCs announced or opened in the past couple months.
The Grand Haven (Mich.) Township Board of Trustees approved Holland (Mich.) Hospital and Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health's plans for a joint outpatient medical building on March 28. After a 3.5 hour meeting, the board did not reach a decision on approving the center.
Surgical Care Affiliates is partnering with St. Paul, Minn.-based HealthEast on a merger of HealthEast's Midway Surgery Center and Maplewood Surgery Center.
Sacramento-based Sutter Health recently signed an agreement to become the majority owner of Modesto, Calif.-based Stanislaus Surgical Hospital.
Wisconsin-based Aurora Health Care is slated to open an $83 million outpatient surgery center in October. Oncologists from Burlington-based Memorial Hospital and Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn, Wis., will treat patients at the new facility.
Abilene, Texas-based Hendrick Medical Center and Abilene and Brownwood (Texas) physicians are creating a joint venture outpatient surgery center in Brownwood. The new ASC will be called Hendrick Surgery Center.
Muncie, Ind.-based Medical Consultants is teaming up with IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, also in Muncie, to offer higher quality care to patients. Medical Consultants will continue offering multispecialty care and procedures at its outpatient surgery center.
Surgical Care Affiliates partnered with Gladiolus Surgery Center in Fort Myers, Fla.