ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn., is proposing to acquire a nearby ambulatory surgery center that exclusively performs gastroenterology and colonoscopy procedures, according to a Hartford Business report.

Hackensack University Medical Center has announced a joint venture partnership with United Surgical Partners International and community physicians in the acquisition and operation of two ambulatory surgery centers, according to a Melodika report.

North Suburban Center for Oral and Facial Surgery has announced the opening of a second location in Lake Forest, Ill., according to a Lake Forester report.

Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx is planning to spend $142.3 million on its first freestanding ambulatory surgery center, according to a Crain's New York Business report.

Here are 21 surgery centers opened, acquired or planned in September 2012.

The Ambulatory Specialty Surgery Center of Brooklyn closed earlier this month and will reopen in October as a facility providing outpatient surgeries, but not abortions, according to an NY Daily News report.

The Tacoma (Wash.) Ambulatory Surgery Center is closing after 30 years, squeezed by competition from the city's two large health systems, according to a News Tribune report.

Hart Road Pain and Spine Institute has been approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health to open in Barrington, Ill., and see its first patient Oct. 2, 2012, according to a release.

Surgery Center of the Pacific and Surgery Center of Santa Monica have executed a letter of intent to combine operations and will provide outpatient surgical care from one location, under the Surgery of the Pacific name, by late 2012.

Sutter Medical Center will move 50 or so staff and physicians from Santa Rosa Surgery Center from their existing location to an 80,000-square-foot medical office building, according to a North Bay Business Journal report.