ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

This week, Houston Healthcare's Warner Robins (Ga.) Hospital opened its expanded surgery center, according to a WMAZ report.

The Hattiesburg (Miss.) Clinic is undergoing an expansion project that will add four locations in the Hattiesburg area, according to a WDAM report.  

Here are three recent ambulatory surgery center ownership and real estate acquisitions.

Foundation Healthcare appointed Hubert King CFO.

Here are 22 ambulatory surgery centers completely or partially owned by physicians that have been announced or opened thus far this year.

Physicians Realty Trust, a self-managed healthcare properties REIT, has closed four unrelated transactions totaling $44.9 million.

Here are eight ambulatory surgery centers that have been planned, opened or expanded within the past month.

In 2010, Kennestone Hospital received preliminary certificate of need approval for the construction of East Cobb Surgery Center in East Cobb County, Ga., but Northside Hospital in Atlanta, opposed the project, according to an Albany Herald report.

In May, AmSurg publicly announced plans to acquire Sheridan Healthcare for $2.35 billion. Less than a month later, industry bore witness to another multi-million dollar deal, the $792 billion Surgery Partners' acquisition of Symbion. What do these two transactions mean…

Truman Medical Centers, based in Kansas City, Mo., has broken ground on a $29 million, 90,000-square-foot outpatient center at its Hospital Hill campus in Kansas City, according to a Kansas City Public Media report.