ASC Transactions & Valuation Issues

St. Edward Mercy Health System in Fort Smith, Ark., has acquired River Valley Musculoskeletal Center (RVMC), also in Fort Smith, which includes a 23,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center, according to a report from The City Wire (Fort Smith Region) and other…

The University of Houston is building an ambulatory surgery center for its College of Optometry as part of the institution's new Health and Biomedical Sciences Center in Houston, according to a news release from the school.

Officials hope to break ground on a new ophthalmology surgery center in Fort Wayne, Ind., this spring, according to a report from The Journal Gazette.

Here are reports about 19 new surgery centers which opened or were announced in January.

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…