Three new proposals or plans for joint venture ASCs:
Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Health, Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International and Nashville-based Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance are seeking approval to build a $14 million surgery center.
A pair of local clinicians said they would be interested in pursuing a joint venture ASC with Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center, which applied for a certificate of need to build an ASC just eight days after the physicians applied for their own. The discussion did not advance.
Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth entered into a surgical joint venture with Doylestown (Pa.) Health to develop a multispecialty ASC called Doylestown Surgery Center.