There is a plan for a new Indiana University Health hospital in Bloomington, which would include an outpatient surgery center, according to a Bradenton Herald report.
The new facility could be built on the current campus site, with much of the current hospital demolished to make way for the new project, or at a new site. The focus on an outpatient surgery center is important to the hospital's strategy, as there is a national trend of declining inpatient volume, according to the report.
The hospital's CEO Mark Moore said the plan is to produce a "highly efficient replacement facility" with better access to patients as more procedures are being done on an outpatient basis. He acknowledged that outpatient surgery is where future healthcare growth will be, and there are more providers competing in that space.