The Washington State Department of Health delayed making a decision on Walla Walla, Wash.-based Providence St. Mary's ASC proposal for the fourth consecutive month, the Union-Bulletin reports.
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Compass Surgical Partners and a group of local surgeons gained clearance to build a multispecialty ASC in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Anderson Healthcare will add an ASC and pediatric clinic to its Edwardsville, Ill., campus in an $8.5 million expansion, according to the Edwardsville Intelligencer.
Greenwood, S.C.-based Self Regional Healthcare opened its remodeled women-focused surgery center, the Index-Journal reports.
Albuquerque, N.M.-based providers Presbyterian Hospital and New Mexico Orthopaedics are partnering to open a surgical center, local news affiliate KRQE reports.
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Here are seven new joint venture ASCs opened in the first quarter of 2019:
SurgCenter Development received city plan commission approval to build a surgery center in Boyne City, Mich., the Petoskey News Review reports.
Construction of a new orthopedics-focused ASC began this week in Grand Traverse County, Mich., according to TV station UpNorthLive.
Nkemakonam Egolum, DDS, opened an oral surgery center in Bowie, Md.
Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern Medical Surgery Center officials held an open house May 20 to allow the public to tour the newly opened surgery center, local news affiliate 23ABC reports.