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27 JOINT VENTURES Florida hospitals keeping ASCs open as elective surgeries are delayed By Eric Oliver BayCare Health System and HCA Healthcare are pausing elective procedures at their local health systems in response to surging COVID-19 case num- bers, local ABC affiliate WFTS reports. What you should know: 1. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA delayed inpatient procedures at several Florida hospitals including: Largo (Fla.) Medical Center, Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, Palms of Pasadena Hospital in St. Peters- burg and St. Petersburg General Hospital. 2. HCA kept the hospital-based outpatient depart- ments open as well as its ASCs. 3. The hospitals are working to identify patients to postpone the procedures that usually required a postsurgical inpatient stay. 4. BayCare delayed procedures beginning July 10 at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Morton Plant in Clearwater, Fla. and Mease Countryside hospitals in Clearwater and Dunedin, Fla. 5. BayCare's ASCs will continue to operate. n Colorado spine centers to merge, will feature 85+ providers By Alan Condon F ort Collins, Colo.-based Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies and Longmont, Colo.-based Front Range Or- thopedics & Spine on June 9 signed a definitive agree- ment to merge practices, Digital Journal reports. Six things to know: 1. The groups will merge under the Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies umbrella Oct. 1. 2. Once the transaction is finalized, the group will feature more than 85 providers, including 45 physicians. 3. About 600 staff will be employed at eight clinical locations. 4. The partnership includes full business and clinical integra- tion and aims to improve value-based care initiatives in the region. 5. The merged entity will have three ASCs, three MRI facilities and two recovery center locations. 6. Front Range Orthopedics & Spine will operate as a division of Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies until it com- pletes collateral use and sign changes on its facilities. One year after the merger is completed, the Front Range Orthope- dics name will transition into Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies. n 9 hospitals, health systems planning ASCs By Angie Stewart N ine hospitals and health systems opened or announced plans for new surgery centers in June: Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International, Nashville-based Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance and Nashville-based Ascension Saint omas received a certificate of need from the Ten- nessee Health Services and Development Agency to build an ASC in Rutherford County, Tenn. Concord (N.H.) Hospital will open its Memorial Medical Office Building June 29, with an array of tenants moving in shortly aer. A surgery center will open in the medical office building operated as a joint venture between Concord Orthopaedics and Concord Eye Surgery. Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida is seeking state per- mission to build a medical office building with a surgery center next to Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital. e city of Chicago is giving Chicago-based Sinai Health System $7 million to construct an ASC in North Lawndale, a city neighborhood. Froedtert Pleasant Prairie (Wis.) Hospital's surgery center expansion opened. Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health is building a medical center with a surgery center in Geneseo, N.Y. Jefferson City, Tenn.-based Jefferson Memorial Hospital is working with Morristown, Tenn.-based physicians on plans to build a multi- specialty ASC. Construction wrapped up on the Clermont, Fla.-based Orlando Health South Lake Hospital Center for Specialty Surgery. University of Maryland Shore Medical Campus at Cambridge plans to open its new medical campus with a surgery center in late 2021. n