Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai and Torrance (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center plan to open an orthopedic-focused ASC. The facility will include three operating rooms and be located adjacent to the Torrance Memorial campus, according to an Aug. 25 news release from Torrance…
New ASC Development
Becker’s has tracked more than 80 new ASCs opened, announced or under construction so far in 2026. Most represent a single health system making a single move. But eight systems are building more than one new ASC in 2026 .…
Kaiser Permanente is advancing construction plans for its long-planned Redlands, Calif., medical campus, with the Redlands Planning Commission set to review detailed site plans for the project’s first building Aug. 25, Community Forward Redlands reported Aug. 24. The commission will…
Most states still require hospitals and other providers to earn a certificate-of-need before developing healthcare facilities including hospitals and ASCs. But what often determines whether an application survives, though, has less to do with community need than with who gets…
Seattle Children’s is building a $103 million ASC in Federal Way, Wash., adding three pediatric operating rooms to its South Sound region, The Daily Journal of Commerce reported Aug. 14. The Seattle-based pediatric health system filed a certificate of need…
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Multiple developers are set to break ground on a healthcare facility and surgery center in Hoover, Ala., according to an Aug. 13 report from Yellow Hammer News. The South Haven Surgical Plaza is an 80,000-square-foot, four-story medical center that includes…
Certificate-of-need laws, once pitched as a method for preventing the duplication of healthcare services, have become highly controversial as their opponents cite them as a factor contributing to soaring healthcare costs. CON laws vary significantly from state-to-state, with different requirements…
Certificate-of-need laws, established decades ago in an attempt to prevent health services from being unnecessarily duplicated within a geographic area, have become some of the most controversial policies in healthcare. A briefing paper published Aug. 11 by the Cato Institute,…
Manchester, N.H.-based Elliot Health System has opened its expanded surgery center. Elliot 1-Day Surgery Center, which included 18 pre-operative rooms, six operating rooms and 12 post-anesthesia care unit bays, added six dedicated procedure rooms in the expansion, according to a…
Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center has purchased 34 acres of land in Lakeland, Fla., for $12 million to build an ASC and outpatient center, according to an Aug. 6 report from Lakeland Gazette. Phase 1 of the outpatient center will…