ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

Central Kansas Medical Center in Great Bend will lay off 130 employees when it becomes a surgery center on May 1, according to a KTKA report.

A new medical office building in Plainsboro, N.J., scheduled to break ground this month, will include a new ambulatory surgery center, according to a report from The Princeton Packet.

University Orthopaedic Associates in New Jersey has announced it is scheduled to open a new ambulatory surgery center in Somerset, N.J., in summer 2011.

Eastern Niagara Hospital, based in Lockport, N.Y., has filed a certificate-of-need application to develop a new ambulatory surgery center in Lockport, according to a report from Buffalo Business First.

St. Vincent Health System has announced the opening of the St. Vincent Outpatient Surgery Center for Gynecology, Orthopaedics and Urology in Little Rock, Ark.

There are many decisions ambulatory surgery center administrators and physicians partners need to make before entering into a merger or acquisition. Jon Vick, president of ASCs Inc., has helped more than 200 ASCs through the process by representing the seller…

When physician-owners of an ambulatory surgery center partner with a management company or hospital, they forge a long-term bond that would be difficult to undo if circumstances deteriorate, says Kevin McDonough, senior manager in the Dallas office of VMG Health.…

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland in Pontiac, Mich., has finished construction on the last phase if its $50 million surgery center project, according to a Detroit News report.

Surgical Care Affiliates has announced it has entered into a formal agreement with Moses Cone Health System, Carolina Neurosurgery and Vanguard Brain and Spine, which have purchased an interest in the general partnership that operates the Greensboro (N.C.) Specialty Surgery…

Here are reports on 70 new surgery center projects currently under development or recently completed in 2011, organized alphabetically by state (includes District of Columbia). Note: If you have a surgery center currently under development or which opened in 2011…