Here are six updates on ASC activity in the South that Becker's has reported on since Oct. 18:
1. Ground has been broken on a three-story medical office building and ASC project in Katy, Texas.
2. Nashville, Tenn.-based Ascension Saint Thomas is opening an ASC in partnership with United Surgical Partners International and Tennessee Orthopedic Alliance.
3. Dallas-based Texas Digestive Disease Consultants and Cedar Park (Texas) Regional Medical Center have broken ground on a joint partnership multispecialty ASC, the Pflugerville (Texas) Surgery Center.
4. Florence, S.C.-based McLeod Health has broken ground on an ASC on its Carolina Forest campus in Myrtle Beach.
5. Cullman (Ala.) Regional Medical Center has earned approval from the State Health Planning & Development Agency certificate of need review board for the construction of a new ASC at Hartselle (Ala.) Health Park.
6. Hoover, Ala.-based Medplex Outpatient Surgery Center has earned approval from the state's certificate-of-need review board to relocate its existing facility and construct an ASC two miles away.