Here are 14 hospitals and health systems that recently announced the opening of or plan to build an ambulatory surgery center. Aurora Health Care plans to break ground on an ambulatory surgery center just outside of Burlington, Wis., next year. The surgery center is expected to open in 2016.
Beloit Health System has filed a certificate of need for a $16.3 million expansion project at its NorthPointe Health and Wellness Campus in Roscoe, Ill. The expansion project includes a surgery center with two operating rooms and two GI procedure suites.
Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson, N.Y., recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its minimally invasive women's health surgery center.
Eastern Niagara Hospital broke ground on its Lockport, N.Y., ambulatory surgery center in January. The $3 million project is expected to reach completion in the summer.
Florida International University and Miami Children's Hospital recently partnered to open a 36,000-square-foot pediatric outpatient surgery facility. The new center is expected to open on the FIU campus in January 2015.
Lehigh Valley Health Network will open LVHN Surgical Center at the former Westfield Hospital in South Whitehall Township, Pa. The surgery center will focus on orthopedics.
Massac Memorial Hospital and the Orthopedic Institute of Western Kentucky plan to open an outpatient orthopedic and podiatric surgery center in Metropolis, Ill.
Metro Health has completed its new ambulatory surgery center at the Metro Health Park East location in Grand Rapids, Mich. Metro Health held an open house for its surgery center on Jan. 14.
NYU Lagone Medical Center recently proposed a 60,000-square-foot medical building that would include an ambulatory surgery center.
South Florida Hospital in Plant City is planning a $5.8 million expansion and renovation of its surgery center. The project will add two operating rooms, increasing the total number of ORs to seven.
Southwestern Medical Center in Lawton, Okla., has broken ground on a 10,000-square-foot, $4.5 million surgery center. The Surgery Center of Southwestern Medical Center is expected to open by July or August.
Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth Town, N.J., opened a new ambulatory surgery center in January.
University of Maryland Medical System and Shore Health System have earned approval to open an outpatient surgery center in Queenstown, Md. The center is expected to open by the end of the year.
The University of Rochester Medical Center has received certificate of need approval for an ambulatory surgery center in Brockport, N.Y.
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