The health system filed the appeal to the Beloit Board of Appeals in mid-February, a month after the Beloit City Council approved the ASC in the city.
The plan for the surgery center is nearly identical to the practice’s original plan for an ASC in a different location, OrthoIllinois CEO Anthony Brown told the Daily News. OrthoIllinois submitted plans for the ASC in 2020, which was followed by a dispute over zoning and strong opposition from the Beloit Health System. OrthoIllinois eventually withdrew its application for that site and resubmitted with a different location.
If completed, the ASC will be called OrthoWisconsin, and would represent OrthoIllinois’ first location outside its home state. The ASC plans to facilitate up to 30 surgeries a week and will have four operating rooms, 12 recovery rooms and the capacity to keep patients overnight.