Note: This is not an exhaustive list.
1. Construction of a surgery center inside a former shopping mall department store in Quincy, Ill., was completed.
2. Rochester, N.Y.-based UR Medicine is building an orthopedic campus with an ASC in a former Sears department store at a mall.
3. A Harris County, Texas, ENT purchased a retail space in Cypress, Texas, and plans to open a clinic in it this summer.
4. Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health plans to build an outpatient surgery center in a former shopping mall.
5. Pittsburgh-based UPMC opened an outpatient surgery center in West Mifflin, Pa. in a former retail space.
6. A former grocery store in Hollis, N.H., was converted into an ASC.
7. Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System purchased a site in a former shopping mall in Helena, Mont., to develop a freestanding clinic that’ll contain a surgery center.
8. A former Walmart Express in Gilbert, Ariz., is being converted into an ASC and medical office facility.
9. AmSurg opened an ASC in Glen Burnie, Md., in a former retail strip.
10. A former office and retail building in Phoenix was remodeled to make way for an ASC.
11. The Albert Lea (Minn.) Healthcare Coalition raised the funds to purchase a former department store in Northbridge Mall. The center, which broke ground in January 2020, includes an outpatient surgery center.
12. University of Rochester (N.Y.) is redeveloping a portion of a former shopping mall in Rochester for $240 million.
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