ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

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.

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.

The development of a new surgery center in Buffalo, N.Y., is expected to receive approval from state officials this week, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

A new dermatology and skin surgery center is coming to Fredericksburg, Vir., according to a Fredericksburg.com report.

An Alaska surgeon group that had a certificate of need request to build an ambulatory surgery center in Kenai denied by the state is still hoping to build the facility, according to a Radio Kenai report.