The following are ambulatory surgery centers with openings, expansions and proposals announced in the past month, by region. Announcements for each region are listed newest to oldest.
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Physicians United, a group headed by Michael Bollinger, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Sebastopol, Calif.-based Palm Drive Hospital, has put forth a proposal for continuing operations at Palm Drive Hospital, which is to close April 28, according to a report…
Southington-based Hospital of Central Connecticut is awaiting state approval to open an orthopedics-focused ambulatory surgery center at its Bradley Memorial campus according to a report from My Record Journal.
Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic announced intentions to build a 60,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its Specialty Center. The facility will be equally owned by the clinic and Symbion, according to a Great Falls Tribune report.
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This month, Hawthorn Surgery Center, an affiliate of Surgical Care Affiliates, moved to a new ambulatory surgery center location, according to a Lake County News-Sun report.
Hennepin County Medical Center is developing a $191 million, 322,000-square-foot clinic and specialty center in Minneapolis, according to a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal report.
Here are six hospitals and health systems that announced plans to build or open an ambulatory surgery center.
On Monday, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the state's certificate of need program was not eliminated when Governor Nikki Haley vetoed the program's funding last year, according to a WLTX 19 report.
Banner Health has invested $2.3 million to open an outpatient surgery center on the Banner Gateway and Banner MD Anderson campus in Gilbert, Ariz., according to a Phoenix Business Journal report.