Here are 22 new ASCs that opened or were announced over the past month.
Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care received approval from the Pleasant Prairie Plan Commission for its $130 million ASC and office building development in Pleasant Prairie, Wis.
NYU Langone Health launched the phased opening of the New York City-based Joan H. and Preston Robert Tisch Center at Essex Crossing, a 55,000-square-foot facility that will include three floors.
After three gastroenterologists expressed interest in joining Buffalo (N.Y.) Surgery Center, the center filed an application with the New York Department of Health to add a GI procedure room. If approved, the center would pay $247,316 to renovate one of its exciting procedure rooms into a GI procedure room.
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare cut certain services at its Morristown, Tenn.-based Lakeway Regional Hospital while building an ASC on a North Knoxville-based medical campus. The center will include six operating suites and is expected to open in early 2019.
Marshalltown, Iowa-based Wolfe Eye Clinic broke ground on a 25,000-square-foot medical facility June 25. The facility will be the largest ophthalmology-dedicated ASC in Iowa. It will be built directly east of Wolf Eye Clinic's West Des Moines, Iowa-based clinic.
Stanford (Calif.) Medicine will open its Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center in Redwood City, Calif., July 9. The center is three stories and 90,000 square feet. The health system built the center to complement services offered at its other outpatient center in Redwood City.
Browns Mills Medical Office Building in Pemberton Township, N.J., opened earlier this week and includes space for an ASC on its third floor.
Flemington, N.J.-based Hunterdon Healthcare held a ribbon cutting ceremony June 14 for its new medical office space in Bridgewater, N.J. The 55,000-square-foot, three-story building now features medical offices for specialties such as breast surgery, occupational/physical therapy and urology on the second floor. An ASC occupies 7,500 square feet on the third floor.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC opened its $19 million outpatient center near Ebensburg, Pa.
Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center broke ground on its 26,500-square-foot surgical facility June 13. This is the biggest developmental project Lexington Medical Center has ever undertaken.
Minneapolis-based Twin Cities Orthopedics opened a 48,000-square-foot facility in Blaine (Minn.) June 11. The clinic houses the Blaine Orthopedic Surgery Center.
Canton-Potsdam (N.Y.) Hospital is constructing an outpatient surgical facility in Potsdam. The facility will be two stories and will house a procedural center and physician offices.
Frisco, Texas-based NextGen oral Maxillofacial & Reconstructive Surgery Center opened to provide cosmetic and reconstructive surgery options to the area.
The New York Department of Health approved Buffalo, N.Y.-based WNY Medical Management's proposal to build a multispecialty ASC in Amherst, N.Y.
Muncie-based Central Indiana Orthopedics is constructing a 37-acre medical campus with a surgery center and medical office space.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas Center for Ambulatory Dentistry broke ground on an 11,000-square-foot dental surgery center, also in Charlotte.
New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Hospital opened a freestanding ASC in New Lenox through a joint venture with independent physicians and Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International.
After its spring opening, the Denver Surgery Center recently received accreditation from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, allowing it to start accepting patients.
Conway (S.C.) Ophthalmology Associates' Charles Proctor, MD, is constructing a new surgery center and office building across the street from his practice. It will offer only ophthalmology services.
Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health is spending $800 million through its new Vision Northland project, which will transform its downtown presence. Essentia is planning to build an entirely new hospital, a clinical building and an outpatient surgery center.
The Lexington Medical Center Foundation began a $3 million fundraising initiative to build a surgical center at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington (S.C.) Medical Center.
Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC is opening a 33,000-square-foot ambulatory clinic in Arcadia, Calif. The clinic is expected to open in late 2018 and will provide both primary care and specialty services.