Here are eleven hospitals and health systems opening or expanding ambulatory surgery centers.
The Niagara Medical and Ambulatory Surgical Park opened in New York.The new ambulatory facility includes offices for Fichte, Endl & Elmer Eyecare.
Milwaukee-based Landmark Healthcare Facilities received a $33.5 million mortgage from Healthcare Financial Services, a GE Capital business, for its new medical office in Kansas City, Mo. Various other organizations lease out the space in the building for outpatient services, including an outpatient surgery center.
Charlotte Surgery Center along with Carolinas HealthCare System are posing an operating room transfer. The ASC would like to move six operating rooms to Randolph Surgery Center.
Advantia Health, a multispecialty healthcare group based in Silver Spring, Md., is opening a third ASC. The new, 10,000-square-foot facility is located in Beltsville, Md.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York is opening the 16-story Josie Robertson Surgery Center as an alternate surgery location for its patients.
Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha is planning to open a new 10,000-square-foot surgery center by next spring.
Nicklaus Children's Hospital has inaugurated its new pediatric ASC, the first of its kind in the region. The ASC is co-owned by a group of about 20 physicians and the main hospital.
Joint Implant Surgeons in Athens, Ohio, performed one of the first complete outpatient knee surgeries at its new outpatient surgery center.
St. Vincent's Health System, based in Birmingham, Ala., has completed a $15.6 million expansion project at its One Nineteen campus, which will include a new ASC.
Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, Mo., recently completed its $18.6 million expansion of Douglas Medical Center, which includes a new ASC.
Muve Healthcare, an affiliate of ASC company Nueterra, plans to open a total joint replacement center in a 24,000-square-foot building being constructed in Lakeway, Texas.