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1. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center received approval for an $8.5 million surgery center. North Carolina regulators have approved a proposal to move three operating rooms to a new 10,000-square-foot surgery center on Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s new campus in Clemmons.The medical center will now be able to proceed with the $8.6 million project, which will complement the two medical office buildings under construction nearby.
2. Pennsylvania’s Erie VA Medical Center plans to build a surgery center. A new ambulatory surgery center for Erie (Pa.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center is scheduled to break ground next winter. The ASC is part of $37.5 million worth of construction and renovation planned for the hospital. Construction of the surgery center is expected to take about a year.
3. Wyckoff Medical Center to double the size of its ASC after forgoing three-hospital merger. The interim CEO of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn has announced the hospital will forgo a three-hospital merger with Brooklyn Hospital Center and Interfaith Medical Center and instead double the size of its ambulatory surgery center. Ramon Rodriguez, interim CEO, said the hospital will double the size of its ASC and develop partnerships with physicians in the Brooklyn and Queens communities.
4. Norton Community Hospital broke ground on a $25.5 million surgery center. Norton Community Hospital broke ground Friday on a new $25.5 million surgery center. The 17,000-square-foot facility is funded by Mountain States Health Alliance and will feature four operating rooms and three specialized rooms for endoscopy and urology procedures. Construction is expected to be complete in Dec. 2012.
5. Connecticut’s Hartford Hospital completed a $27 million acquisition of Constitution Eye Surgery Center. Hartford (Conn.) Hospital has completed its $27 million acquisition of Constitution Eye Surgery Center in Newington. Hospital leadership believes the acquisition will give the hospital a greater presence in Hartford’s outpatient ambulatory eye surgery industry.
6. Mississippi’s Pioneer Community Hospital will open a surgery center. Pioneer Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Miss., will open a new surgery center as part of a renovation and expansion of the hospital. The hospital’s CEO, Sean Johnson, confirmed Pioneer Community is opening the surgery center, although no other details on the addition were provided.
7. North Carolina’s Presbyterian Healthcare will open an $8.6 million surgery center. Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, N.C., will perform the first procedure at its new $8.6 million ambulatory surgery center on Feb. 20. The surgery center will include eye care, pediatric endoscopy and a diagnostic breast center. Woody Hubbard, vice president of ambulatory care for the health system, said Presbyterian has identified an unmet need for those services.
8. Sanford Health received approval to expand its surgery center. The Greater Bemidji Area Joint Planning Board has approved an expansion for Sanford Health Bemidji, which will include a 24,000-square-foot surgery center. The expansion will also include a 20,000-square-foot orthopedic center and a 40,000-square-foot cardiac center.
9. Boulder Community Hospital’s expansion will include an ASC. Boulder (Colo.) Community Hospital is planning a $110 million expansion, which will add more than 100,000 square feet of clinical space to the hospital and include a cardiac center, cancer unit, physician offices and outpatient surgery center. The expansion will also feature an inpatient cancer/urology unit named after Sandy and Sally Bracken, who donated $1 million to the expansion and have been recognized as longtime supporters of the hospital.
10. Missouri’s Texas County Memorial Hospital will build a surgery center. Texas County Memorial Hospital in Houston, Mo., plans to build a new surgery center. The surgery center is part of a larger renovation project that includes building a tornado safe room that could provide shelter for 462 people.
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