ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are five new joint venture ASCs announced or opened in the past couple months.

Katy, Texas-based Westgreen Surgical Center filed a form D for equity financing totaling $220,500.

The Oak Brook Village Board approved the construction of an outpatient orthopedic care building, which will include an ambulatory surgery center, in Oak Brook, Ill., according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Ernst & Young named AmSurg President and CEO Chris Holden Entrepreneur of the Year Southeast for Healthcare.

On July 14, Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health will host an open house for its new ambulatory surgery center, Southtowns Surgery Center, also in Buffalo, according to The Buffalo News.

Arcadia (Calif.) Outpatient Surgery Center submitted form D for equity financing, according to Consumer Eagle.

Aurora-based University of Colorado Health began construction on a hospital and ambulatory surgery center in Longmont, Colo., according to healthcare design.

Kernersville Outpatient Surgery submitted a certificate-of-need in March to the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation, but is drawing opposition from other hospitals and surgery centers in the area, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

Compass Surgical Partners named Susan Kizirian vice president of operations and facility development.

Savannah (Ga.) Hospital Authority approved Savannah-based St. Joseph's/Candler's bond resolution for an $87.5 million expansion, according to WTOC.com.