New ASC Development

Albany Medical Center, Saratoga Hospital and Capital Region North are teaming up to build an outpatient surgery center primarily devoted to joint surgeries, according to Albany Business Review.

The long-vacant Hamden (Conn.) Surgery Center underwent $10 million in renovations to become Northeast Alliance Surgery Center, the New Haven Register reports.

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board gave Quincy (Ill.) Medical Group more time to answer remaining questions about its proposed ASC project, the Herald-Whig reports.

Ahead of the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board's March 5 decision on Quincy (Ill.) Medical Group's proposed $19.5 million ASC, Tanya Mero, MD, penned a letter to The Herald-Whig explaining the project's merits.

Worcester, Mass.-based management services organization Reliant Medical Group plans to develop a joint venture ASC in Natick, Mass., for about $10 million.

Beaver, Pa.-based Heritage Valley Health System opened its 59,000-square-foot outpatient "medical neighborhood" in a new mixed use-development in Center Township, Pa., The Times reports.

Albany, N.Y.-based providers OrthoNY, Albany ENT, and St. Peter’s Hospital secured an $8.2 million construction loan to pay for their surgery center in Colonie, N.Y., the New York Real Estate Journal reports.

Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health acquired 57.81 acres in Colorado Springs, Colo., for $30 million. Centura Health plans to build several facilities on the land, the Colorado Real Estate Journal reports.

Here are 25 ASCs that were opened or announced in February:

Chicago-based River North Surgery Center is seeking state permission to establish an ASC.