ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Meridian, Idaho-based St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center has broken ground on a new ambulatory surgery center, according to an ABC 6 news report.

Covenant Surgical Partners closed on $35 million Series C round financing, according to a Dow Jones report.

The first surgery has been performed at Norton Hospital's St. Matthew's Pediatric Surgery Center at Suburban in Louisville, Ky., according to a WHAS11 report.

Regent Surgical Health, a surgery center management and development company specializing in hospital/physician joint ventures, and its physician partners at the Advanced Surgery Institute, have announced a joint venture with Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, an affiliate of the St. Joseph…

MemorialCare Health System, based in Fountain View, Calif., announced its physician group division has entered into a joint venture with Surgical Care Affiliates to develop, acquire and manage ambulatory surgery centers in Orange and Los Angeles counties.

Global healthcare management company Nueterra acquired majority ownership of Basin Healthcare in Odessa, Texas.

Ohio hospitals are enjoying outpatient volume growth, according to a Third Quarter 2012 Key Indicators Report, according to a Virtual-Strategy Magazine report.

Here are 10 new ambulatory surgery centers recently opening and expanding.

Representatives from Meridian Surgical Partners will attend the McGuireWoods Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity and Finance Conference at the end of February.

Surgicare founder Robert Knapp, MD, and associates have opened Surgicare of Wichita, a new $7 million outpatient surgery center, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.