Here are six physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers that have been opened or announced within the past two months.
Haitham Masri, MD, and Fatina Masri, MD, opened the Advanced Surgery Center in Dearborn, Mich.
The Centers for Special Surgery of Essex County opened in Roseland, N.J. David Greuner, MD, a cardiovascular surgeon and founding partner of the center, is the CMO of the surgery center.
Anesthesiologist Nosrat Khajavi, DO, opened the Elite Surgical Center in Fremont, Calif.
New Mexico Laser Eye Center will open in Clovis in the spring of this year. Sloan Rush, MD, and Avery Rush, MD, of Rush Eye Associates in Amarillo, Texas, will travel to the surgery center to perform procedures twice a month.
Physician practice Fichte, Endl & Elmer plans to open The Niagara (N.Y.) Medical and Surgical Park this year. The practice's new location will include 12,000 square feet of office space and an ambulatory surgery center.
Orthopaedic Associates of Wisconsin is constructing a new clinic and outpatient surgery center in Delafield. The new facility is expected to cost $20 million and will consolidate the clinic and ASC at one location.