ASC Leader 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…
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) has published an analysis of Medicare claims from KNG Health Consulting that projects that ASCs will save Medicare $84.8 billion from 2025 to 2034. Previously, stated ASCA, KNG used Medicare claims to determine that ASCs saved Medicare $43.2 billion between 2015 and 2024, and…
People magazine last week reported on a husband’s reaction to his wife’s death at a surgery center. The outlet writes that a 48-year-old woman underwent a 10-hour surgery at a plastic surgery center. She stopped breathing the next day, was revived with CPR, but was pronounced brain-dead. The patient had…
Northern Michigan CBS affiliates WWTV/WWUP-TV reports that Munson Healthcare plans to open a new ASC in Cadillac this summer. “The new center is part of Munson Healthcare’s commitment to lowering the cost of care and improving access in rural communities,” the TV stations report. “Currently, patients often drive 45 minutes…
Two ASCs publicly reported data security incidents over the last week. Covenant Health’s Advanced Family Surgery Center, formally known as Surgery Center of Oak Ridge (Tenn.), LLC, stated that “on or around November 26, 2025,” it “became aware of a network intrusion that affected a limited number of systems” and…
