ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital has opened the new Anne P. and Harold W. McGraw Jr. Center, according to a Norwalk Daily Voice report.

Cottage Health System and Sansum Clinic, both based in Santa Barbara, Calif., are planning to merge. Cottage Health is looking to sell its Santa Barbara Outpatient Surgery Center to allay the FTC's monopoly concerns, according to a Pacific Coast Business…

AmSurg shares traded at $84.82, down nearly 0.2 percent according to Money Flow Index.

ProMedica, a health system based in Toledo, Ohio, is continuing work on a new surgery center, according to The Blade.

Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta has bought a 30 percent stake in Surgery Center of Columbia in Evans, Ga., according to The Augusta Chronicle.

Surgery Partners is scheduled to go public this week, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.

Tenet Healthcare shares rose 2.5 percent on Wed., Sept. 23, according to DC Progressive.

Carolinas HealthCare Systems Blue Ridge, based in Morganton, N.C., has broken ground on a new surgery center as part of a two-year project, according to The News Herald.

The Premier Ambulatory Surgery Center project, led by husband and wife physicians Vishal Sharma, MD, and Nisha Sharma, MD, was delayed. But, now New York state officials are reconsidering the project, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

JPMorgan Chase began coverage on HCA shares and issued the company a neutral rating, according to The Legacy.