New ASC Development

Florida had the busiest start to ASC activity in 2021, with four ASCs that opened or were announced in the first quarter.

Compass Surgical Partners has begun construction on the Western Carolina Surgery Center, an ASC launched in partnership with AdventHealth Henderson, Asheville ENT, Carolina Ophthalmology and Emerge Orthopaedics in Asheville, N.C. 

Some ASC developers have turned to old malls and retail spaces to open new centers. Here are 12 facilities that opened or planned to move into retail spaces since January 2020:

Construction of a surgery center inside a former shopping mall department store in Quincy, Ill., has been completed, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported March 19.

Vancouver Clinic and healthcare real estate developer PMB broke ground March 17 on their joint venture, a $75 million clinic in Vancouver, Wash.. 

Cleveland-based University Hospitals and ValueHealth are developing a joint-venture ASC in Lorain County, Ohio, that will be able to perform 800 total joint replacements a year.

The ASC market showed significant growth in the two years before the pandemic, according to the 2021 report to Congress released by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission March 15.

Rochester, N.Y.-based OrthoLazer Orthopedic Laser Centers will open 10 new facilities in Wisconsin and Texas through a franchisee group.

Adena Greenfield (Ohio) Medical Center is developing a $3 million, 8,500-square-foot medical office building, The Times-Gazette reported March 15.

Jefferson City (Mo.) Medical Group is expected to break ground on its outpatient surgery center March 16, local NBC affiliate KOMU reported.