Here are 10 hospitals and health systems opening or expanding ambulatory surgery centers.
Dayton Children's Hospital is planning a $47.5 million expansion to its Springboro campus which will include an outpatient surgery center with four operating rooms.
Erie (Pa.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center is in the process of expanding its ambulatory surgery center with a new area for cataract surgery.
UMass Memorial Health Care is moving forward with plans to open an ambulatory surgical center next year. The construction would begin later this year as a joint venture with Shields Health Care Group of Quincy. It would handle an estimated 8,077 patients in 2017 and grow to 12,923 patients in 2018.
University of Colorado Health in Aurora purchased a $9.6 million plot of land in Longmont to develop a new acute care hospital and ambulatory surgery center.
Kessler Medical Arts Complex, which was acquired by Community Health Associates in 2011, was approved for a 16,000-square-foot surgery center that would include outpatient surgery centers as well as behavioral health and sleep centers.
Penn Medicine is scheduled to open an outpatient surgical center later this year in Chester County, Pa., that will include obstetrics, gynecology, orthopedics, cardiology, otolaryngology, gastroenterology and pediatrics.
HCA Midwest Health opened the SurgiCenter of Kansas City in a larger location in June. The new location can accommodate more physicians and specialties with larger operating rooms. Five new physicians have joined since January.
McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, S.C., is planning several renovations, including an ambulatory surgery center.
Surgeons finally began performing outpatient surgery at the Green Bay VA's Milo C. Huempfner Outpatient Clinic on June 1 after the center opened in August 2013. The surgery center includes several outpatient procedures and could eventually host outpatient orthopedic surgery in the future.
WellStar Health System opened an outpatient surgery center at the WellStar East Cobb Health Park that has 20 private prep and recovery rooms as well as three operating room suites and three procedure rooms.