New ASC Development

A two-story multispecialty surgery center opened Aug. 4 at Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro, Tenn., according to the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal.

Plymouth (Minn.) Planning Commission unanimously approved a mixed-use development that will house a Twin Cities Orthopedics ASC and clinic, Sun Sailor reported Aug. 3. 

HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood is adding endoscopy suites and outpatient rooms in a $42 million expansion, the Houston Chronicle reported Aug. 2. 

From Massachusetts to Arizona, here are the 21 ASCs opened or announced in July, as reported by Becker's ASC Review. 

SoutheastHEALTH broke ground on the second phase of its $125 million expansion featuring an ASC in Cape Girardeau, Mo., local CBS affiliate KFVS12 reported July 30. 

Austin-based Advanced Pain Care opened a new ASC and completed its first case.

Catholic Health received state approval for a $66 million hospital in Lockport, N.Y., with an outpatient surgery center, Buffalo News reported July 29.  

Tobias Carling, MD, left his position as professor of surgery and program director of the Yale endocrine surgery fellowship to open an adrenal surgery center in Tampa, Fla.

Quincy, Ill.-based Blessing Health System is opening a $21 million ASC this fall, the health system said July 27.

Becker's ASC Review has reported on three surgery center proposals in the last two months: