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The Digestive and Liver Center of Florida has announced that the Endo-Surgical Center of Florida in Orlando is now open.

Aspen Surgery Center in Simi Valley, Calif., is undergoing a renovation that will expand the facility 30 percent, according to a Moorpark Acorn report.

Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital has started construction on a new two-story facility that will house a surgery center and emergency department, according to a Sonoma Portal report.

Construction leaders completed the first phase of construction on Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center in San Antonio, according to a KSAT report.

Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services and the University of Minnesota are collaborating on a $182 million surgery center project, according to a Star Tribune report.

ThedaCare will begin construction on ThedaCare Medical Center in Shawano, Wis., next year, with completion expected in 2014, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Erlanger Health System CEO Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson told the County Commission Thursday that the financially-troubled hospital is making $23 million in surgical improvements to attract departed surgeons, according to a Chattanoogan report.

HealthOne's North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Colo., is opening a freestanding emergency room Monday, the first phase of a planned nine-acre Northeast ER campus that will include an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Denver Business Journal report.

Virginia Urology, based in Richmond, is seeking approval to build a new surgery center in Colonel Heights, Va., according to a Progress-Index report.

Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho, plans to reopen a surgery center in Pocatello, according to a KPVI report.