ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Operating income at Medical Facilities Corp. increased 15.7 percent to $91.1 million in fiscal year 2013.

OhioHealth MedCentral Mansfield Hospital has begun construction on a new surgery center and medical office building, according to a WMFD report.

Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J., has begun construction on a 57,000-square-foot ambulatory care center, according to an nj.com report.

Nearly half of ambulatory surgery center management and development companies, 47 percent, observe that ASC case volume is stable, according to VMG Health's 2011 ASC ValueDriver Survey. But how do these companies perceive factors that could potentially affect case volume…

Two physicians recently saw their first patients at ISPM ASC at Camp Creek, according to a news report from Interventional Management Services.

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.