Here are nearly 10 ASCs and outpatient facilities that have closed in 2025, as reported by Becker’s.
Gaps in funding, staff struggles and to improve health system efficiencies led to a number of ASCs closing so far this year.
Note: This list is not exhaustive.
- Heights University Hospital in Jersey City, N.J., which includes an ASC, closed immediately after being denied $25 million in funding.
- Myrtletown, Calif.-based North Coast Ophthalmology and Humboldt Physicians Surgery and Laser Center will permanently close in February as both ophthalmologists are set to retire.
- UCLA Health is planning to close two smaller ASCs in Santa Clarita and Thousand Oaks, Calif., for cost-cutting measures and as a way to enhance efficiency.
- Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health System closed an ASC that has been in operation for more than 35 years due to federal funding issues.
- Sacramento-based Sutter Health closed its Sutter Amador Surgery Center in Jackson, Calif.
- Sturm Cosmetic Surgery, an ASC in Ames, Iowa, closed abruptly for unknown reasons.
- A number of ASCs in California were forced to temporarily close during wildfires in January.
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