ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Ambulatory surgery center physician-owners have many reasons to consider entering a hospital joint venture: a calculated defensive strategy to weather the changes in healthcare or an offensive play to outstrip competing ASCs among the most common.

University of Minnesota Physicians and Fairview Health Services, now operating as University of Minnesota Health, broke ground on a 330,000-square-foot, $160.5 million outpatient facility in Minneapolis.

This week, developers are scheduled to break ground on the 90,000-square-foot Douglas Park Medical Office Park in Long Beach, Calif., according to a Press-Telegram report.

For the past three years, Merritt Healthcare has worked with architects Shepley Bulfinch on a series of ambulatory surgery centers across Connecticut. Shepley Bulfinch architecture team leader Gerard Georges discusses quality, value, and the design process in his work with…

Here are five hospitals and health systems that are opening, building or planning ambulatory surgery centers.

Here are 12 statistics on how ambulatory surgery center management and development companies perceive and respond to the ASC acquisitions market, according to VMG Health's ASC ValueDriver Survey 2011.

Surgical Care Affiliates announced its fourth quarter and year-end financial results.

Lumberton (N.C). Surgical Associates will become an affiliate of Southeastern Health and be renamed Southeastern Surgical Center 2, according to a fayobserver.com report.

In September, Arete Surgical Center in Johnstown, Colo., but could initially only accept cash pay patients, according to a Northern Colorado Business Report.

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board delayed its vote on the Beloit Health System plan to add a surgery center to its NorthPointe Health and Wellness Campus in Roscoe, Ill., according to an rrstar.com report.