Excela Health has finished a $10 million surgery center that will focus on cancer treatment at its Latrobe (Penn.) Hospital, Trib Live reported Oct. 27.
New ASC Development
There are 35 states in the country that have a certificate-of-need program — laws designed to control healthcare costs by restricting competition for duplicative services and determining whether capital expenditures meet a community need.
University of California Davis Health is expanding its presence in Folsom with a long-term project spanning nearly 35 acres, which the university paid $30.6 million to acquire, according to an Oct. 27 report in the Sacramento Business Journal.
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Gentera Center for Regenerative Medicine opened a new facility featuring an ASC, according to an Oct. 27 news release.
An Illinois review board has rescinded Advocate Sherman Hospital's permit to build a $12.7 million ASC that originally was approved in 2017, the Chicago Tribune reported Oct. 25.
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A Georgia certificate-of-need panel has now approved two hospitals' ASCs in Braselton after disputes dating to 2018, The Gainesville Times reported Oct. 26.
University of Chicago Medicine is planning to build a medical facility with an ASC in Crown Point, Ind., The Northwest Indiana Times reported Oct. 26.
Atlas Healthcare Partners, an ASC development and management company based in Phoenix, is opening a joint venture ASC with Phoenix-based companies Sonospine and Advanced Spine and Pain, Atlas said in an Oct. 26 news release.
A Georgia certificate-of-need appeal panel approved Northside Hospital's plan to build a surgery center in Braselton, the hospital said Oct. 25.
Kaiser Permanente's "topped out" its new Murrieta (Calif.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, ConXtech, a construction company involved with the project, said Oct. 24.