Ambulatory Surgery Centers Smith Entertainment Group (SEG), which owns the NBA’s Utah Jazz and the NHL’s Utah Mammoth, has announced a partnership with Intermountain Health to develop a sports medicine center that integrates into its sports campus in Sandy, Utah. The approximately 60,000-square-foot Intermountain Health Sports Performance Center, scheduled to open in 2028,…
ABC affiliate WQOW-TV reports that Mayo Clinic Health System plans to break ground on a six-floor, 128,400-square-foot surgical and procedural building on its Eau Claire, Wis., campus in spring 2027, with a planned completion date of fall 2029. Richard Helmers, MD, vice president of Mayo Clinic Health System Wisconsin, said…
Lee Health has entered into a definitive agreement to establish a “long-term partnership” with independent cardiology practice Florida Heart Associates by acquiring it. According to Lee Health, the organizations already have a “decades-long collaborative relationship.” It states that “with this acquisition, Lee Health sustains its leadership as the largest and most…
Insurance Business reports that Allstate has sued Florida Orthopedics and Neurosurgery, which does business as University Orthopedic Care, along with its two owners, “under federal racketeering law, accusing it of running a kickback-driven billing scheme that cost the insurer millions.” In the complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the…
Last week, Florida non-profit health system Lee Health held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the construction of a 60,000-square-foot pediatric ASC in Fort Myers. This week it held another, this time for Lee Health at Veterans Parkway, a 100,000-square-foot “ambulatory clinic” in Cape Coral that it states will deliver “comprehensive”…
Amid the consistent migration of surgical cases from inpatient hospitals to outpatient settings, one North Carolina medical center is, at least temporarily, reversing the tide. Local media outlet CityView reports that Cape Fear Valley Health is seeking permission from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service…
Florida non-profit health system Lee Health announced that construction has started on its new Pediatric Surgery Center and Family Medicine Clinic. The two-story, 60,000-square-foot facility, expected to open in early 2028, will be located adjacent to Lee Health’s Golisano Children’s Hospital and HealthPark Medical Center campus in Fort Myers, Fla.…
OrthoCarolina is stepping up its ASC presence in the Charlotte, N.C., region. The physician-owned-and-led orthopedic practice last week announced plans for a new orthopedic ASC in Steele Creek and an expansion of its existing ASC in Matthews. OrthoCarolina stated that these moves will boost its ASC OR capacity from four to…
The Surgery Center of Southern Oregon (SCSO) in Medford will close on June 30 after nearly three decades of operation. KOBI-TV, which broke the story last week, reported that the closing will cause the loss of 84 jobs. Local health system Asante partly owned SCSO and had worked since October…
Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia has bolstered its “growing role in the Mid-Atlantic outpatient surgery market” with a trio of ASC partnerships across Virginia. The ASCs are Careplex Orthopaedic ASC in Hampton Roads, MedRVA Healthcare’s Stony Point and West Creek surgery centers in the Richmond area, and an unidentified “otolaryngology center in…
