ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Construction has started construction on a new surgery center in Fort Myers, Fla., according to a Naples Daily News report.

Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America has announced it is partnering with Roosevelt Hospital in New York and 26 local surgeons, to develop a new, multi-specialty outpatient surgery center on Manhattan's West Side, according to a news release from ASCOA.

A new outpatient surgery center is scheduled to open in Glendale, Calif., in March 2012, according to a San Fernando Valley Business Journal report.

Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania has acquired the Fairgrounds Surgical Center in Allentown, Pa., according to a The Morning Call report.

Members of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association of Illinois are being asked to serve on the board of a certificate of need advisory group, according to an ASCAI news report.

It took almost a year, but the application for a new surgery center in Franklin Lakes, N.J., has received planning board approval, according to a Franklin Lanes/Oakland Suburban News report.

Construction has begun on a new outpatient surgical center for Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, according to a Mass. Eye and Ear news release.

Construction has begun on a new surgery center in Southwest Florida, according to a Southwest Florida Marketing Forum report.

The New Albany (Ohio) Surgery Center opened in late October, according to a blog entry on the website of OrthoNeuro, a physician group that will be a provider in the new facility.

United Surgical Partners International has announced its financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, with revenues for the quarter of about $149.5 million, an increase of 6 percent over the third quarter of 2010, according to a USPI…