ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Here are 10 new surgery center projects planned, opened or developed by hospitals, according to various news reports.

During a Tuesday meeting at the Kenai (Alaska) Peninsula Borough Assembly chambers, Assembly President Gary Knopp addressed a perceived "divide" between Central Peninsula Hospital and independent physicians pursuing the construction of an ASC, according to a Peninsula Clarion report.

Coastal Carolina Otolaryngology Associates has moved to the Grande Dunes Surgery Center building in Myrtle Beach, S.C., according to a Myrtle Beach Online report.

Tucson (Ariz.) Medical Center is undergoing a $109 million expansion that includes development of a new surgery center, according to an Inside Tucson Business report.

A new medical office building under development in East Norriton, Pa., will include an ambulatory surgery center, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report and the website for the medical arts building.

AmSurg added 11 non-National Surgical Care and 14 NSC surgery centers during 2011, driving a growth in procedures and revenue for the management and development company, according to a Zacks Equity Research report.

Physicians Surgical Center in Norman, Okla., is scheduled to open a new surgery center in Moore, Okla., in May, according to a NewsOK report.

A plan proposed by New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for a new outpatient surgery center in Manhattan has been rejected by a community board, according to a DNAinfo report.

Buffalo (N.Y.) Ambulatory Surgery Center has filed plans with the state to open a new surgery center in Cambria, N.Y. according to a Buffalo Business First report.

The Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Foundation, on behalf of Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is hosting a fundraising event later this month to benefit the hospital's new surgery center under development as part of a larger plaza tower project, according…