ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Vice President of Development at Surgical Care Affiliates Ben Jacobs discusses the company's recent acquisition of Health Inventures and where he sees the biggest opportunities for surgery center development in the future.

Here are six statistics on what ambulatory surgery center leaders think are the biggest challenges their centers face, according to a 2011 Provista Report of ASC Survey Findings.

Cleburne Surgical Center in Cleburne, Texas recently held an appreciation event for local medical practices and healthcare professionals to increase public awareness of newly added and well-established services offered at the center, according to a Cleburne Times-Review report.   

Bancorp Bank, an FDIC-insured branchless commercial bank wholly owned by The Bancorp, welcomed Norman Pacyga as first vice president of healthcare lending.

Congressman James Lankford (R-Okla.) recently praised Surgery Center of Oklahoma during a U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, according to an Urban Tulsa Weekly report.  

The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center plans to file certificates of need with the state's health department for the construction of an ambulatory surgery center and free-standing emergency room, according to a Democrat and Chronicle report.

West Regional Medical Group has announced plans to break ground on a 16-acre medical park, which will include a surgery center, in Bismarck, N.D., according to report by The Dickinson Press.

Here are 12 statistics on ambulatory surgery center liquidity based on the number of operating rooms, according to the VMG Health 2011 Multispecialty ASC Intellimaker Survey.

Regent Surgical Health, an ambulatory surgery center management and development company, has helped fund the opening of the Hospital Universitaire de Mirebalais in Haiti.

Here are 24 statistics on the average number of fulltime equivalent employees in ambulatory surgery centers based on geographic location, according to VMG Health's ASC Intellimaker Survey 2011.