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25 JOINT VENTURES ing is under construction in Frisco, Texas. Merriam, Kan.-based Ascentist Ear, Nose and roat is building a medical office building with an ASC. e Tomball, Texas-based Alpha Surgical Center opened. Medford, Mass.-based Lawrence Memorial Hospital is undertaking renovations to make room for an ASC. Pain Care Surgery of Louisville is seeking ap- proval to open an ASC in St. Matthews, Ky. Norfolk, Neb.-based Fountain Point Medical Community will soon open its surgery center, continuing to expand its services aer the clinic portion of the facility opened last September. March A 45,000-square-foot medical plaza develop- ment is underway in Victoria, Texas. It will feature an ASC expansion. NexCore Group is building an ASC in Tucson, Ariz. Work on the Endoscopy Center of Greeley (Colo.) is a wrap. e 11,822-square-foot ASC features three procedure rooms, as well as 11 pre- and postoperative recovery bays. A medical real estate group is seeking permission to convert an office in Wilton, Conn., into an ASC and medical office. A cardiology ASC and medical office build- ing is under development in Las Cruces, N.M., according to Guide Architecture, a firm involved in the project. A multispecialty ASC called the Dallas Pro- cedure Center opened with nine preopera- tive bays, 18 post-anesthesia care unit beds and two convalescent rooms. Work is progressing on the Steamboat Orthopaedic and Spine Institute and Surgery Center in Steamboat Springs, Colo. irteen clinicians developed a new outpatient surgery center in Boyne City, Mich., with help from Towson, Md.-based SurgCenter Development. A $1 billion construction project at Wil- lowbrook, Calif.-based Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital includes plans for a medical office building with an ASC. A former Walmart Express in Gilbert, Ariz., is being converted into an ASC and medical office facility. UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital developed a new ASC in Waterloo, Iowa. April Colorado construction firm Golden Triangle Construction built an ASC in Fort Collins, Colo. Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint omas Health, Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International and Nashville-based Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance are seeking state ap- proval to build a $14 million surgery center. Walla Walla, Wash.-based Providence St. Mary Medical Center is converting the closed Walla Walla General Hospital into an ASC. Nashville-based Vanderbilt Health received approval to convert an existing building into a $19.95 million ASC. e South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control approved West Columbia, S.C.-based Lexington Medical Center's $19.9 million plan for an ASC in Columbia, S.C. Fort Worth, Texas-based Medical City Al- liance is building an ASC to alleviate the caseload in its main operating rooms. May Muncie-based Central Indiana Orthopedics planned to open a facility featuring a surgery center in Fishers, Ind. Nashville-based HCA Healthcare has a new ASC in Brandon, Fla. Baptist Health Lexington (Ky.) plans to build a $1 billion outpatient surgery and medical campus in Hamburg, Ky. Delphi, Ind.-based St. Elizabeth Healthcare signed a letter of intent to absorb Lawrence- burg, Ind.-based Highpoint Health. If ap- proved, St. Elizabeth Healthcare aims to build a medical campus with Highpoint Health, including an oncology center, emergency de- partment, surgery center and inpatient beds. Franklin, Tenn.-based Williamson Medical Center opened a new surgical clinic on its main campus. Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System plans to open a hospital that will feature a surgery center in Minocqua, Wis. Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston is seeking state approval for a $14.2 million ASC. e 20,000-square-foot facility would be located in Topsham. Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., is seeking approval to build a new hospital with a surgery center, an emergency room and retail spaces in St. Johns County. A pair of local clinicians are competing against Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center for approval to develop a surgery center in Orangeburg. Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth en- tered into a surgical joint venture with Doylestown (Pa.) Health, and will develop the Doylestown Surgery Center. University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Cen- ter seeks to develop a medical office building and outpatient surgery center in Mayfield, Ohio. n Maine health system plans $14.2M ASC: 4 details By Laura Dyrda A health system in Maine is planning to construct a multimillion-dollar ASC focused on orthopedics but will also include other outpatient spe- cialties, according to the Bangor Daily News. Four things to know: 1. Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston is seeking state approval for a $14.2 million ASC. The 20,000-square-foot facility would be located in Topsham. 2. If approved by the state, the health system hopes to have the ASC up and running by 2021. It would hire 16 individuals to staff the center where the health system's physicians could perform cases. 3. The ASC could be a "strong new revenue stream" for the health system, ac- cording to the report. Central Maine Healthcare furloughed around 10 percent of its 3,200 employees in April due to the pandemic. 4. Central Maine Healthcare's CEO Jeff Brickman told BDN that the health system's outpatient surgeries are projected to increase 11 percent in the next two years, and he expects the ASC to be profitable "within several years" without taking income away from the main hospital's surgical services. n