New ASC Development

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has opened a multispecialty ASC with 18 physician partners in the Nashville, Tenn., suburb of Brentwood.

The Bridgewater (N.J.) Township Council approved an ordinance change to repurpose a Crate & Barrel store for an ASC, local news network TAPinto.net reported Dec. 21. 

AdventHealth recently placed the last beam on its $100 million Innovation Tower, which will feature an ASC, said Randy Haffner, president and CEO of AdventHealth Central Florida.

Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare opened a multispecialty ASC in partnership with 24 physicians.

HCA Healthcare and its joint venture partners have completed a medical office building with an ASC on its Houston campus. 

Physician Partners of America plans to open a multispecialty ASC in Orange Park, Fla.,, during the first quarter of next year.

Baton Rouge, La.-based Ochsner Medical Complex-The Grove opened a comprehensive pediatric clinic featuring an ASC.

A January 2019 plan  that included a new ASC in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb of Amherst has been scrapped, according to a Dec. 20 report from The Buffalo News.

Atlas Healthcare Partners and Banner Health, both based in Phoenix, have added three ASCs in Arizona, Atlas said Dec. 20.

Here are 18 hospitals and health systems that opened or announced plans for ASCs in November: