Here are 18 ASCs opened or announced in April:
1. Providence-based Ortho Rhode Island, Calspan and the Carpionato Group held a groundbreaking for Ortho Rhode Island's medical office building and surgery center in Warwick, R.I.
2. Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children's Health System is constructing a series of projects including a surgery center in Frisco, Texas.
3. Easton-based University of Maryland Shore Regional Health gained permission to transition Cambridge-based UM Shore Medical Center at Dorchester into a freestanding medical facility. Located beside a new medical pavilion, the freestanding facility will include an ASC with one operating room and one procedure room.
4. The Memphis, Tenn.-based Campbell Clinic completed an expansion that includes an ASC.
5. Brentwood, Tenn.-based TriStar Health is moving forward with a $17.3 million surgery center development after fierce opposition from competitors delayed the project for over a year.
6. Surgery Center Services of America is building a 33,000-square-foot ASC in Bismarck, N.D.
7. Ulster, N.Y.-based HealthQuest Medical Practice is building a primary care office and an ASC in a former Macy's in Ulster.
8. Canton, Ohio-based Omni Orthopedics broke ground on a surgery center April 27.
9. New York City-based Kofinas Fertility Group opened New York's first standalone reproductive ASC.
10. A group of surgeons opened Downeast Surgery Center in Bangor, Maine, April 17.
11. Muncie, Ind.-based Central Indiana Orthopedics began building a facility in MedTech Park, a 37-acre business development in Fishers, Ind.
12. Mike Golpa, DDS, a dentist practicing in Southern California, plans to open Golpa Dental Implants Surgery Center in Tysons Corner, Va., in June.
13. Industry, Calif.-based IQ Laser Vision opened an ASC April 23.
14. The Gerald J. Friedman Center for Breast and Lymphatic Surgery opened in Great Neck, N.Y., this month.
15. Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center won conditional approval to build a freestanding ASC for $19.4 million.
16. The Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee — a partnership between Franklin, Tenn.-based Williamson Medical Center and more than a dozen orthopedic surgeons — opened its new facility April 29.
17. Providence-based Ortho Rhode Island, Calspan and the Carpionato Group held a groundbreaking for Ortho Rhode Island's medical office building and surgery center in Warwick, R.I.
18. Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children's Health System is constructing a series of projects including a surgery center in Frisco, Texas,