18 ASC acquisitions in October

A roundup of ASC purchases making news last month:

1. Private equity real estate firm Thomas Park acquired a medical office building with a surgery center in Edison, N.J.
2. Hershey-based Penn State Health and Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth purchased a 60 percent stake in the Surgery Center of Lancaster (Pa.).
3. Evergreen Medical Properties, an Atlanta-based healthcare investment and management firm, and Boston-based Bain Capital Real Estate bought a portfolio of 12 outpatient medical office buildings in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
4. The Grove Place Surgery Center in Vero Beach, Fla., was sold for $3 million to private real estate investment firm Ironside Real Estate USA.
5. A Nashville, Tenn.-based medical office building housing an oral and facial surgery center was sold for $8 million to Nashville-based Murphy Avenue General Partnership.
6. A Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment company acquired 10 properties from the Department of Veterans Affairs that included three ASCs in Texas, Georgia and Florida.
7. A Nashville, Tenn., medical office building housing Southern Endoscopy Center sold for $8.65 million.
8. Investment group NAI Partners sold the Marble Falls, Texas-based Hill Country Memorial Surgery Center for $7 million.
9. Healthcare Real Estate Advisors sold the Odessa, Fla.-based Comprehensive Outpatient Joint & Spine Institute.
10. A medical office building in Chesterfield, Mo., housing the MidAmerica Surgery Center was acquired by Bain Capital Real Estate and Evergreen Medical Properties.
11. Real estate investment firm IRA Companies purchased a medical office building housing the Boca Raton Outpatient Surgery & Laser Center for $16 million.
12. Private equity firm IRA Capital acquired a medical office building housing the Endoscopy Center of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.
13. Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International entered an agreement to acquire Compass Surgical Partners' ownership and management interests in nine ASCs.
14. Real estate developer Meridian purchased a medical office building with an on-site surgery center in Beverly Hills, Calif., for $81.5 million.
15. A building housing the Specialty Surgery Center in Nashville, Tenn., sold for $6.6 million to Newton Square, Pa.-based real estate developer GMH Communities.
16. HCA Healthcare acquired the Anchorage-based Alaska Surgery Center. It also acquired the Provo-based Central Utah Surgical Center.
17. Brentwood, Tenn.-based Pinnacle Dermatology acquired Minneapolis area plastic surgery center Omni Cosmetic.