ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

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.

Letters are pouring in to local media in support of and against a proposed surgery center for Kenai, Alaska.