Category: New ASC Development

$3.5M spine ASC coming to UF Health

Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health is building a $3.5 million ASC specializing in spine and pain management, Jacksonville Business Journal reported April 29.

$20M Missouri ASC to open in September

Jefferson City, Mo.-based Capital Regional Medical Center’s 24,000-square-foot ASC is expected to open this September, Jefferson City News Tribune reported April 29.

Texas ASCs: 5 developments

Texas is a hot spot for ASC development. Here are five ASC moves in the state from the last month:

Texas hospital opens ASC to ease burden on hospital 

Texoma Medical Center has opened an ASC in Denison, Texas, to offload burden from its main hospital, local ABC affiliate KTEN reported April 26. 

Michigan hospital opens joint venture ASC

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health is opening an outpatient campus with an ASC.

$17M New York ASC is region’s first for neurosurgery

Amherst, N.Y.-based Atlas Surgery Center is opening May 2 as the area’s first neurosurgery ASC, Buffalo Business Journal reported April 25.

$80M project will boost Pennsylvania health system’s ambulatory surgeries 

Lehigh Valley Health Network is building an $80 million hospital in Mahoning Township, Pa., that will expand its ambulatory surgery services, the Times News reported April 22. 

Independent physician group, hospital open project with ASC in Indiana

Franciscan Health and independent physician group Forté Sports Medicine and Orthopedics recently opened a facility housing an ASC in Carmel, Ind., Current Publishing reported April 24. 

Physician who called opioids his ‘Skittles,’ convicted of 38 charges

Hawaii anesthesiologist Rudolph Puana, MD, was convicted on 38 counts of opioid distribution, the Justice Department said April 20.

Certificate of need approved for Alabama eye ASC

Plans for the proposed Florence (Ala.) Eye Surgery Center were approved by the Alabama Certificate of Need Review Board, JDSupra reported April 21.