New ASC Development

Minneapolis-based Allina Health is planning to build a surgery center in Brooklyn Park, Minn., in partnership with Surgical Care Affiliates.

West Covina, Calif.-based Emanate Health's Queen of the Valley Hospital is developing an ASC as part of a larger project with an emergency room, intensive care unit and cancer center, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported Feb. 24.

Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System is converting space in Altru Specialty Center into an ASC, local radio station KROX reported Feb. 23.

Two physician-owned groups entered into a joint venture Feb. 22, with Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Healthcare to open Chesapeake Regional Surgery at Virginia Beach.

Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Penrose-St. Francis Health Services plans to build a 72-bed orthopedic and spine hospital on a 57.8-acre parcel of land in Colorado Springs, The Colorado Springs Business Journal reported Feb. 18.

A Delaware planning board recommended the Health Resources Board approve a joint-venture surgery center, the Delaware Business Times reported Feb. 18.

Jackson, Miss.-based University Physicians relocated their clinic into a medical office building in Canton, Miss., owned by Merit Health Madison, the Madison County Journal reported Feb. 17.

The Orthopedic Surgery Center of the Fox Valley is now open in Neenah, Wis.

St. Louis-based Mercy broke ground on a five-story, 272,000-square-foot outpatient multispecialty center across from Mercy Hospital St. Louis that will include a surgery center, the system announced Feb. 16.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Jax Spine & Pain Centers will break ground on a $25 million surgery center and medical office building in Jacksonville Feb. 17.