ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

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.

Baylor Surgical Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, said Monday that it plans to build a $35.1 million, 77,000-square-foot surgery center, according to a Dallas Business News report.

Massachusetts Eye and Ear has celebrated the grand opening of a new outpatient surgery center in the Longwood/Mission Hill area of Boston, according to a Newswise report.

In a webinar hosted by Becker's ASC Review, Christian Ellison, senior vice president of corporate development for Health Inventures, discussed key considerations for hospitals deciding to own or joint venture with an ambulatory surgery center.