New ASC Development

In mid-November, Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care and The Jackson (Tenn.) Clinic revealed plans to build an outpatient surgery center in North Jackson.

Only a dozen states don't require certificate-of-need approval for outpatient surgery center development and expansion, according to Transwestern, a commercial real estate company.

Outpatient surgery center projects are subject to certificate-of-need requirements in the overwhelming majority of U.S. states, according to Transwestern, a commercial real estate company.

Richens Eye Center is opening an ASC this fall in St. George, Utah, St. George News reports.

The Cherokee Nation and Indian Health Services are holding a grand opening ceremony for a $200 million tribal outpatient health center in Tahlequah, Okla., Nov. 14.

LuccaHealth Medical Specialty Center opened Oct. 25 to provide specialty care and same-day surgery in partnership with New York City-based New York University School of Medicine.

Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare plans to open its fourth outpatient surgery center in spring 2020.

Here are four hospitals and health systems that opened or announced plans for ASCs in October:

  A new eye surgery center is coming to Wilmington, N.C., in 2021, pending certificate of need approval, according to local news source WilmingtonBiz.

The University of Miami (Fla.) Health System plans to build a medical center with outpatient services at Downtown Doral, a mixed-use community in Doral, Fla.