In the past month, seven development projects involving surgery centers had a price tag of $500,000 or more:
Alamogordo, N.M.-based Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center broke ground Aug. 9 on a medical office complex that will house a surgery center. The complex is part of a $65 million project that will also include renovations to the emergency department and a cancer center expansion.
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin's West Bend (Wis.) Surgery Center is relocating from the West Bend Health Center campus, which is undergoing reconstruction. Milwaukee-based Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin invested $53 million in the West Bend Surgery Center and West Bend Health Center development projects.
Murrells Inlet, S.C.-based Tidelands Health opened a $44 million building in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Sept. 4. It is seeking state approval to put an ASC and endoscopy suites on the first floor.
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health is opening an expanded, $31.5 million ASC at Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center.
An ASC will occupy space in a new 102,000-square-foot medical office development called Synergy Medical in Englewood, Colo. The Synergy Medical project involved a $28 million investment.
A $23 million healthcare facility is underway in Grafton, N.D. The new Unity Medical Center facility will feature a surgery center, rehabilitation services and an emergency room.
Norwalk, Ohio-based Fisher-Titus Medical Center and area surgeons are partnering for a regional surgery center in Norwalk. Administrators expect the Surgery Center of North Central Ohio will cost $5.8 million and will open in late 2020.
Pennsylvania awarded WellSpan Health a $500,000 grant for its Health and Surgery Center project in North Cornwall Township.
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