ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Fifty-eight percent of recent and planned medical construction projects are in the outpatient arena, according to Colliers International Senior Vice President Beth Young.

Marietta, Ga.-based WellStar Health will break ground on a new outpatient facility near Alpharetta, Ga., MDJ reports.

The Surgery Center at Shrewsbury (Mass.) opened May 24, becoming the first new center in Massachusetts since the state lifted a moratorium preventing new centers in 2017, Mass Live reports.

More than 12,000 square feet of space was added to Goochland, Va.-based Medarva West Creek Surgery Center, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International acquired ownership stakes in Jacksonville, Fla.-based Borland Groover's Jacksonville Center for Endoscopy in Southside, Fla., and Jacksonville Center for Endoscopy in Riverside, Fla.

Washington, D.C.-based Capital Digestive Care purchased a 100,000-square-foot medical complex in Rockville, Md., the Washington Business Journal reports.

A judge ruled in favor of Annapolis, Md.-based Anne Arundel Medical Center's bid to develop a cardiac surgery center, the Capital Gazette reports.

Boulder (Colo.) Community Health is building a 30,000-square-foot medical office building next to its Community Medical Center in Lafayette, Colo., the Daily Camera reports.

Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Children's Hospital received a $1 million gift from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation after the hospital raised more than $16 million from the local community, the Caller Times reports.

North Carolina regulators received certificate of need applications from four Winston-Salem, N.C.-based providers: Triad Center for Surgery, Cone Health, Forsyth Medical Center and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.