ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Baton Rouge (La.) General and Baton Rouge-based Vascular Specialty Center are opening Mid City (La.) Specialty Center, an ASC, The Advocate reports.

Cleveland Clinic opened its Coral Springs (Fla.) Family Health System, which features an outpatient surgery center as well as endoscopy suites, July 16, Coral Springs Talk reports.

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

Little Rock (Ark.) Diagnostic Clinic is considering selling to Little Rock-based CHI St. Vincent Medical Group, Arkansas Money & Politics reports.

Work is underway on Grace Surgery Center in Ocala, Fla., the Ocala StarBanner reports.

The Grand View Surgery Center in Harleysville, Pa., opened in April, MCall reports.

OSF Healthcare, Peoria (Ill.) Surgical Group and Illinois Gastroenterology Institute are attempting to sell their 97,997-square-foot medical office building in Peoria, RE Journals reports.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Skin Surgery Center sold its 18,300-square-foot medical office building to Vest Mill I for $6.6 million, the Triad Business Journal reports. 

Mergers announced in the first half of the year were valued at more than $2.5 trillion combined, on track to set the largest yearly total on record, The New York Times reports.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is investing $160 million to help Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital expand its clinical and ambulatory presence in Fairfield and Westchester counties in Connecticut, Hamlet Hub reports.