ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are 16 statistics on surgery center case volume by operating room, according to VMG Health's ASC Intellimaker 2011 Survey.

Nemours duPont Pediatrics, based in Wilmington, Del., officially cut the ribbon on its new 20,000-square-foot outpatient facility and surgery center in Bryn Mawr, Pa., according to a MAINLINEmedianews report.

Here are eight things to know about ASC joint ventures between not-for-profit hospitals and physicians.

Ambulatory surgery center management and development company Regent Surgical Health has announced the formation of a new joint venture partnership with the physician partners of Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center.

The Surgical Center of Greensboro (N.C.) has filed a certificate of need application for a $23 million building, which would consolidate its two existing facilities, according to a report by The Business Journal.

Paseo (N.M.) Surgery Center is expected to now occupy 6,200 square feet of a 15,000-square-foot Albuquerque building that previously housed Vaughn Co. Realtors', according to an Albuquerque Business First report.

Greensboro (N.C.) Specialty Surgery Center filed a certificate of need application with the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation for a $5 million expansion project, according to a report by The Business Journal.  

Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Medical Center has earned state approval for a five-year lease and the addition of an ambulatory surgery center on the second floor of an outpatient surgery facility proposed for Virginia Beach, according to a PilotOnline.com report.

Lakes Regional Healthcare, based in Spirit Lakes, Iowa, is nearing completion of its 10,000-square-foot, $20 million expansion project, which includes a new surgery center, according to a Dickinson County News report.

On Sept. 9, Christopher Holden, CEO of ambulatory surgery center management and development company AmSurg, sold 5,000 shares of the company's stock, according to a WKRB News & Analysis report.