ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Reproductive Partners and UCSD Regional Fertility Center have opened the fully accredited La Jolla Women's Surgery Center in California, according to a press release.

Scotland County Hospital has opened a new surgery center in Memphis, Mo., according to a Heartland Connection report.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., announced today it will partner with Regent Surgical Health to convert the hospital's ambulatory surgical pavilion from a hospital outpatient department to a physician joint venture, according to a release.

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Memorial Sloan-Kettering has submitted a certificate of need application for its replacement outpatient surgery center, according to a Crain's New York Business report.

Second City Capital Partners of Vancouver has purchased Thunderbird Commons in Peoria, Ariz., a lot that includes Pinnacle Surgery Center, according to a Phoenix Business Journal report.

Summit Health named its surgery center in Chambersburg, Pa., after retired Chambersburg Hospital physician Roy A. Himelfarb, MD, on Friday, according to a Penn Live report.

Aurora Health Care may convert Milwaukee's Aurora Sinai Medical Center into an outpatient center to reduce the health system's losses, projected to reach $30 million this year, according to a JS Online report.

A proposal for a new Palos Hills, Ill.-based surgery center failed to garner enough votes to pass at a meeting of the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board on Jan. 10, according to a Chicago Business report.

Aaron Murski, senior manager with VMG Health, discusses surgery center merger and acquisition activity in 2012.