New ASC Development

Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center won conditional approval to build a freestanding ASC for $19.4 million.

The Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee — a partnership between Franklin, Tenn.-based Williamson Medical Center and more than a dozen orthopedic surgeons — set an opening date for its new facility.

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (La.) is developing a new 75,000-square-foot medical campus, which will include an ASC, Shreveport Times reports.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Surgical Management Professionals points to ASC market growth and hospital interest in surgery center partnerships as the factors behind its rapid growth.

Albany, N.Y.-based OrthoNY opened OrthoNY Surgical Suites, a $5.3 million outpatient surgery center in Clifton Park, N.Y., Albany Business Review reports.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based providers Kaleida Health and Western New York Urology Associates are planning a $5 million ASC addition on Kaleida's Harlem Road facility, Buffalo Business First reports.

Here are 16 ASCs that were opened or announced in March 2019:

Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina's outpatient facility being developed in a former J.C. Penney is on track to accept patients in December, according to ABC 4 News. 

Dallas-based North Central Surgical Center's ASC portion opened in March.

Kadlec Surgery Center is coming to Richland, Wash., according to Apollo Mechanical Contractors.