Opening a private, cash-pay surgical practice looks straightforward from the outside: buy or rent space, get permitted, start operating. Heather Levites, MD, founder of Levity Lifts, a plastic surgery practice in Raleigh, N.C., walked Becker’s through what year one actually…
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Cleveland-based MetroHealth has opened a $220 million outpatient health center on its main campus in Cleveland. The 300,000-square-foot facility is expected to accommodate about 450,000 outpatient visits each year, according to a July 27 news release from MetroHealth. Services at…
Traverse City, Mich.-based Munson Healthcare has opened a new ASC in Gaylord, Mich., after receiving accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care as well as Medicare certification. The Gaylord Surgery Center provides outpatient surgical procedures including gastrointestinal, ophthalmology,…
Connecticut has enacted a sweeping overhaul of its certificate-of-need program, shifting regulatory authority from the Office of Health Strategy to a new three-member CON Panel housed within the Department of Public Health, according to a July 23 JD Supra report. …
Allina Health will open the Richard M. Schulze Surgical and Critical Care Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis on Aug. 29, 2026, completing the largest infrastructure project in the health system’s history. The 620,000-square-foot facility includes 190 private patient…
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The Digestive Health Center of Alliance, formerly known as the Digestive Health Center of North Richland Hills, has opened a new center in Fort Worth, Texas. The 9,500-square-foot facility includes three procedure rooms, one operating room and 14 preoperative and…
Jon Guze, senior fellow in legal studies at the Raleigh, N.C.-based John Locke Foundation, filed a July 17 brief urging the North Carolina Court of Appeals to apply a 2024 state Supreme Court precedent in the case of Jay Singleton,…
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Clinton will build a new 22,000-square-foot ambulatory clinical center and undergo a major hospital renovation after the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the project July 16 in St. Johns, Mich. The $62 million project…
Nashville-based Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance opened a 57,000-square-foot orthopedic campus in Spring Hill, Tenn., July 1, expanding access to orthopedic care in the region, according to a July 15 Main Street Maury report. The facility brings subspecialty orthopedic care, MRI services,…
Jay Singleton, MD, an ophthalmologist in New Bern, N.C., has asked the North Carolina Court of Appeals to reverse a trial court ruling that upheld the state’s certificate-of-need law, according to a July 13 Carolina Journal report. Dr. Singleton, who…