Florida is one of the most active states for ASCs and medical real estate.
Six Florida ASC moves and other updates Becker's has reported on in the last 30 days:
1. United Digestive began offering anesthesia services at three Florida endoscopy centers in Fort Myers and Cape Coral.
2. Ravi Chandra, MD, a vascular surgeon and political appointee of the Florida Board of Medicine, allegedly failed to ensure his Ocala-based office complied with a state anesthesia regulation. The Florida Department of Health filed the complaint, saying that a July 2021 inspection of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgical Associates found that paramedics were providing anesthesia care, violating the state rule that a qualified anesthesia provider must assist a surgeon.
3. Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health East is renovating a facility in collaboration with Jacksonville-based Jax Spine & Pain Centers. The three-story, 52,146-square-foot Jacksonville facility will house an ASC on its first floor, the report said.New renovations include an MRI unit and other upgrades totaling about $1.4 million.
4. The property housing Jacksonville, Fla.-based Southpoint Surgery Center was sold for $18.2 million.
5. Site work has begun on a new 87-acre medical complex in Panama City Beach, Fla., that will include an ASC.
6. Lori Tolland, RN, was elected to the Ormond Beach (Fla.) City Commission. Ms. Tolland, a nurse at physician-owned East Coast Surgery Center in Daytona Beach, won the election with 55.17 percent of the vote, the report said. She will serve as the commission's Zone 1 representative.