Here are five ASC acquisitions and partnerships announced in March 2019:
ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues
Wheeling (W.Va.) Hospital will close Bellaire, Ohio-based Belmont Hospital April 5, The Intelligencer reports.
A Bossier City (La.) developer is building a $35-million medical and commercial development on a 13.7-acre lot in Bossier City, the Bossier Press-Tribune reports.
Portland-based Maine Medical Center is seeking approval from the Scarborough (Maine) Planning Board to build a surgical center on Campus Drive, The Forecaster reports.
With the U.S. ambulatory surgery market expected to reach $93 billion in 2024, hospitals and health systems are forced to strategically confront price cuts and new competition, according to an Advisory Board report.
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The Urbana, Ill.-based Carle health system moved its oral surgery unit to a new outpatient clinic, according to the News Gazette.
Tampa-based BioSpine Institute plans to open a new surgery center in Orlando.
Bellingham (Wash.) Bay Ophthalmology is moving to a new office roughly three miles from its current one, according to The Bellingham Business Journal.
The final phase of construction on Mercy Health-Perrysburg (Ohio) Hospital is nearing completion, according to ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com.
Hospitals acquired 8,000 medical practices between July 2016 and January 2018, according to data from Avalere Health and the Physicians Advocacy Institute, and 2019 is shaping up to be another active year for transactions.