ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Metro Health in Grand Rapids, Mich., has announced plans to expand its downtown surgery center by adding a fourth operating room, according to an MLive report.

The N.C. Court of Appeals ruled against Novant Health this week in its legal challenge to a $38.7 million ambulatory surgery center planned by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, according to a Greensboro Business Journal report.

U.S. ambulatory surgery center operator AmSurg plans to issue $250 million senior unsecured notes to repay borrowings from its revolving credit facility, according to a Reuters report.

K&S LP sold the Orange Coast Surgery Center in Anaheim, Calif., to CSS Pacific Property for $2.6 million, according to a CoStar Group report.

Retina Consultants of Southern Colorado, Eye Associates of Colorado Springs and Colorado Eye Associates are merging into a single practice and constructing a 40,000-square-foot medical building and surgery center, according to a Colorado Springs Gazette report.

Texas Center for Athletes' surgery center will come under new management, following Sports SA Holdings hiring Transwestern to take over property management, according to a San Antonio Business Journal report.

Excela Health, based in Greensburg, Pa., has disclosed preliminary plans for a 114,000-square-foot outpatient medical facility in Unity, a project it hopes to start building by summer, according to a TribLIVE report.

Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, S.C., has broken ground on a $6.8 million surgery center, according to a Times & Democrat report.

Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan., has received bids from five or seven general contractors invited to submit them and nears the groundbreaking for its $18 million surgical center, according to a Joplin Globe report.

Here are 17 surgery centers that opened, were acquired or were planned by hospitals or physician groups in October.