Here are the five most expensive ASC projects in September, as reported by Becker's:
1. St. Louis-based Mercy, the Heartland Whole Health Institute and the Alice L. Walton foundation announced a $700 million, 30-year affiliation that will include the construction of a new cardiac center in Rogers, Ark.
2. Agora Realty & Management invested more than $200 million into the development of a 42,000-square-foot medical office building in Las Vegas.
3. North Charleston, S.C.-based Trident Medical Center broke ground on a $40 million, 80,000-square-foot medical office building to expand its services.
4. Winston-Salem, N.C-based Novant Health plans to open a two-story outpatient facility in a former Verizon Wireless call center in Wilmington, N.C. Healthcare real estate firm Flagship Health Properties acquired the 153,526-square-foot building for $21 million.
5. Parker Cornea will open the $8 million Liberty Park Eye Center in Vestavia Hills, Ala.