New ASC Development

Three new proposals or plans for joint venture ASCs:

Five hospitals and health systems opened or announced new ASCs in April:

Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., is seeking approval to build a new hospital with a surgery center, an emergency room and retail spaces in St. Johns County, The St. Augustine Record reports.

A pair of local clinicians are competing against Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center to earn approval to develop a surgery center in Orangeburg, The Times and Democrat reports.

Baptist Health Lexington (Ky.) plans to build a $1 billion outpatient surgery and medical campus in Hamburg, Ky., for which it will receive up to $12.7 million in tax breaks over 20 years, the Lexington Herald Leader reports.

St. Augustine, Fla.-based Flagler Hospital resumed performing elective procedures May 4, The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.

While the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is still counting absentee ballots, it seems likely University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center will receive approval from local voters to develop a medical office building and outpatient surgery center in Mayfield, Ohio, cleveland.com…

Eight ASCs were opened or announced in April:

A 23,000-square-foot ASC in Anna, Texas, is on track for a July opening despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Daily Light reports.

Nineteen hospitals and health systems have opened or announced plans to open an ASC so far in 2020.