Here are the ASCs opened or announced since Jan. 1 in four of Medscape’s top states for physicians to practice.
1. Idaho
- Oklahoma City-based Naadi Healthcare’s plan to build an ASC in Lewiston, Idaho, cleared a hurdle.
2. Georgia
- Piedmont Physicians Medical Oncology Newton opened the Knox Surgical Center at the Piedmont Newton Hospital in Covington.
- Eye MD Surgery Center was approved to open in Bethlehem, as Barrow County’s first ASC.
3. Texas
- Arkansas Heart Hospital is building a cardiology ASC and clinic in Texarkana.
- Fort Worth-based Medical City Alliance opened an outpatient surgery center on its campus.
- Healthcare real estate firm Caddis is building a medical office building with an ASC in Frisco.
- Ochiltree General Hospital in Perryton is building a 6,000-square-foot, $5 million surgery center to expand access to care in the region.
- Kerrville-based Peterson Health secured a $1.6 million grant that will help prepare the site for its $44 million surgical center.
- Private equity firm Hammes Partners is building an $18 million medical plaza with an ASC in McAllen.
- Texoma Medical Center opened an ASC in Denison to offload burden from its main hospital.
4. Indiana
- A surgeon from Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago is planning to open an outpatient orthopedic surgery center in Chesterton.
- Chicago-based Rush University System for Health is opening an outpatient center in Munster.
- Franciscan Health and independent physician group Forté Sports Medicine and Orthopedics opened a facility housing an ASC in Carmel.
