ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

National Bank Financial reduced its target price on Medical Facilities Corp. shares from $15 to $13, according to Stock News Times.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services is negotiating with Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health to purchase Walla Walla (Wash.) General Hospital, according to Union-Bulletin.

Kernersville (N.C.) Endoscopy Center submitted a certificate-of-need application to shift two endoscopy rooms from its Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Piedmont Endoscopy Center to a proposed ASC in Kernersville, Triad Business Journal reports.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare and Avon, Conn.-based Constitution Surgery Alliance opened the Constitution Surgery Center East in Waterford, Conn., Nov. 16.

Here are four gastroenterology-focused ASCs or facilities that were newly announced or opened in October.

Zacks downgraded Surgery Partners shares from a "hold" to a "strong sell" Nov. 18, according to True Blue Tribune.

Egg Harbor Township (N.J.) officials gave Egg Harbor Township-based AtlantiCare Health Park approval to construct a new two-story building, according to Shore News Today.

Here are five updates on ASC management companies to note.

Here is how four major, publicly traded ASC chains fared in the stock market for the week of Nov. 13 to Nov. 17.

Flagship Healthcare Properties, a real estate firm based in Charlotte, N.C., bought the building housing Holly (N.C.) Springs Surgery Center, according to Triangle Business Journal.