ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

The Jefferies Group has reiterated its "buy" rating of AmSurg stock, according to a Dakota Financial News report.

John Muir Health and UCSF Medical Center, nationally renowned for its superior programs, worked together to open a new liver transplant outpatient clinic in the East Bay Region, specifically located in Walnut Creek.

Physicians and healthcare developers from Rockaway Beach in New York went before a community board to discuss plans of opening an ASC on Rockaway Beach Boulevard which is set to open in 2016.  

St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., plans to build a new medical office building on a newly cleared property, and according to the Ravalli Republic, conceptual plans also include a four-story ambulatory care center.

SurgCenter Development and a group of physicians are building a new joint venture surgery center in Athens, Ohio, according to a report from The Athens News.

Surgery Center South in Dothan, Ala., has filed a certificate of need for an expansion project, according to a mondaq report.

Here are 15 hospitals and health systems that have opened or are announced plans to open ambulatory surgery centers within the past month.

HCA Midwest Health, based in Kansas City, Mo., will open its SurgiCenter of Kansas City in a larger location on June 23, according to a Kansas City Business Journal report.

A research report released last Tuesday to investors stated Quality Systems had its price target lowered by Topeka Capital Markets.

In a recent report, Jefferies Group gave a "buy" rating to AmSurg, the owner and operator of short stay ambulatory surgery centers in the United States.