Congress will vote today on a House Republican bill that would allow POHs to open if they were under construction at the end of 2010 and would allow them to expand if they were already in existence at that time,…
ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues
Ambulatory surgery center management and development companies were very active during the final months of 2011. Here are 10 recent reports on transactions involving ASC management and development companies, including new center openings, partnerships and acquisitions. Note: Reports are listed…
Earlier this year, the 16 physician owners of Physicians Alliance Surgery Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., embarked on a journey to find a partner for their four-operating room ambulatory surgery center. The surgery center, which opened in 2000, had grown…
Joan Dentler is president of ASC Strategies. She provides consultancy services related to outpatient surgery to hospitals and health systems, including facilitating ambulatory surgery center and hospital outpatient department partnerships and acquisitions. Q: You recently suggested, in the column…
Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas, will open a new ambulatory surgery center dedicated to pediatrics in winter 2012, according to the Cook Children's website.
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A surgical center is included in a new 20,000-square-foot facility in Houston, according to a Community Impact Newspaper report.
A new ambulatory surgery center developed by Pinnacle III for Boulder (Col.) Community Hospital has broken ground, according to a Daily Camera report.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will determine whether Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is allowed to build a new $38.7 million ambulatory surgery center, according to a Business Journal report (subscription required for full access).
A new outpatient surgery center has opened in Columbus, Ga., according to a Ledger-Enquirer report.
Shriners Hospital for Children in St. Louis said it will build an outpatient orthopedic surgery center instead of the seven-story, 40-bed acute care hospital originally planned for Central West End, according to a St. Louis Today report.