Bowling Green, Ky.-based TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital is building a new surgery center in Warren County, Ky., according to Bowling Green Daily News.
Here are five points:
1. The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services approved the application for the new 13,000-square-foot surgery center.
2. Southern Kentucky Surgicenter will cost $9,109,500.
3. The hospital's outpatient surgery rate increased 38 percent between 2013 and 2015, so this new surgery center will help with the demand.
4. The center plans to see 2,774 patients in its first year, increasing to 4,624 patients in its second year.
5. Construction on the new surgery center will begin in 2016.