ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are seven updates on ASC companies and industry-relevant companies to note:

Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Pinnacle Capital Management Services entered into a joint venture to acquire San Francisco-based Physicians Medical Center from Swift Real Estate Partners for $30 million, Commercial Property Executive reports.

Utica, N.Y.-based Mohawk Valley Health System's plans for a new hospital include four operating rooms for outpatient surgery, the Observer-Dispatch reports.

Analysts believe Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare has a big quarter in store with earnings estimated at $0.88 per share, the Fairfield Current reports.

Medical Facilities Corp. will pay a cash dividend of $0.06 per share (CDN $0.09) to shareholders of record Aug. 15.

Taft, Calif.-based West Side Health Care District is building a $9 million outpatient clinic to replace the area's long-defunct acute care hospital, the Taft Midway Driller reports.

Here are 41 ASC acquisitions and partnerships announced so far this year:

New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Hospital recently opened its new outpatient endoscopy center and is preparing to accept patients, the Daily Southtown reports.

A Kaiser outpatient center in Santa Rosa, Calif., was evacuated July 18, after a truck collided withan oxygen tanker, NBC Bay Area reports.

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network opened a full-service outpatient center in an Aspinwall, Pa.-based shopping plaza to compete with UPMC St. Margaret, the TRIB Live reports.