The State Health Planning and Development Agency voted to approve the CON request, allowing the orthopedic group to begin construction of the facility.
The ASC will include operating and procedure rooms, along with a surgical robot. It will be open within the next two years, the report said.
The move to approve the ASC comes a month after plans were tabled amid opposition from Birmingham, Ala.-based Baptist Health and Jackson Hospital. The orthopedic practice was asked to work on a resolution with the hospitals who worried the ASC could negatively affect them, the report said.
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