Salem (Ohio) Regional Medical Center is seeking city council approval of financing bonds to help pay for a $45 million surgical facility it's building in Columbiana, Ohio, Morning Journal News reported March 16. 

In a set of recommendations released March 14, the Department of Veterans Affairs called for several changes in its facilities and infrastructure, including an increase in ASCs.

Healthcare real estate firm Caddis is building a medical office building with an ASC in Frisco, Texas, Dallas Business Journal reported March 15.

Below are seven hospitals that have opened or plan to open their own ASCs:

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine is planning a new outpatient center in North Wales, Pa., CEO Kevin Mahoey told the Philadelphia Business Journal.  

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has bought an office complex in White Plains, N.Y., for $83.5 million that it plans to redevelop into a multispecialty outpatient campus, Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals reported March 8.

OrthoIllinois' plan to open a $19 million surgery center in Beloit, Wis., is on track for a spring 2023 opening despite another appeal to the city of Beloit from Beloit Health System, the city's largest employer, the Beloit Daily News reported March 10. 

Since the last week of February, three joint-venture ASCs have opened in Virginia, Tennessee and Arizona.

Dulles, Va.-based StoneSprings Hospital Center opened an orthopedic ASC in Sterling, Va.

Rochester, N.Y.-based Strong Memorial Hospital has filed the most certificate of need applications in data company Definitive Healthcare's database. 

Utah is primed for ASC growth. The state has seen the highest population growth, an 18.4 percent increase, of any state over the last 10 years and doesn't require providers to apply for a certificate of need to build an ASC. 

Florida Heart Associates has completed the construction of an ASC in Fort Myers, Stevens Construction, a company involved with the project, said March 7. 

Essentia Health is building a 41,000-square-foot surgery center at Miller Hill Mall in Duluth, Minn., Fox 21 reported March 7.

Cincinnati-based TriHealth will begin work on a $30 million outpatient campus in March that is expected to bring 120 jobs to the area, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Ochiltree General Hospital in Perryton, Texas, is building a 6,000-square-foot, $5 million surgery center to expand access to care in the region, New Channel 10 reported March 3.

Becker's ASC Review has recently reported on three projects featuring ASCs that total $752 million. 

Chicago-based Rush University System for Health is opening an outpatient center in Munster, Ind.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Portsmouth, N.H.-based Atlantic Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine have opened a joint venture ASC in Portsmouth.

The number of ASCs in Texas have grown rapidly in the last five years, and it remains a hot spot for ASC development. 

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Ross Eye Institute is set to begin construction on a new treatment center, Buffalo Business Journal reported March 1.