ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Orthopedic practice Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow and Parkside Partners, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate firm, are set to break ground on a new Atlanta medical office project that will include a surgery center, according to a Buckhead Patch report.

Here are 10 recent developments for health systems, management and development companies and physician groups applying for surgery center certificates of need. Projects are identified by developer and whether the project has been approved, pending or denied.

Members of North Carolina's House Select Committee on Certificate of Need and Hospital-Related Issues will review the state's certificate of need laws this year, a move that could narrow the scope of CON rules or simplify the application process, according…

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.