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27 JOINT VENTURES Minnesota pain management group constructing ASC By Eric Oliver S artell, Minn.-based The Center for Pain Management is building a facility with a surgery center in the city to replace its current space, SC Times reported. The Center for Pain Management has spent 15 years in its current facility. The space was in need of renovation, so the group decided to just build a new facility. The new space will be 12,700 square feet. It will have two surgery suites, nine patient bays, and several exam rooms and procedure rooms. The group expects to open the facility in May 2021. n Arizona gets a new ASC By Angie Stewart T here's a new ASC in Chandler, Ariz., according to Marwan Tamimi, an architect who contributed to the facility's develop- ment. An open house was recently held for the new ASC, dubbed Ad- vanced Surgical Care East. Integrity Building Corp. and Mesa, Ariz.-based Surgery Center Ser- vices of America were involved in the project. n Developer building MOB in Arizona By Eric Oliver A Milwaukee-based developer is building a medical office building in Peoria, Ariz., the Phoenix Business Journal re- ported. Irgens is building the medical office building near an existing struc- ture it completed in 2016. The developer doesn't have a tenant in mind for the office building, but it is located near several medical providers. Irgens also said the space would be a great location for an ASC. n 15.3% of providers are in solo practice: Where are the others? 7 key insights By Angie Stewart M ore than half of providers practice in a hos- pital or in a single-specialty group, accord- ing to e Medicus Firm's "2020 Practice Preference & Relocation Survey." e Medicus Firm, a national physician search company, collected survey responses from 2,464 providers in its proprietary physician database and American Medical Association data in June and July. Of the roughly 66.7 percent of respondents who provided demographic information, about 67 percent held MDs, and 11.5 percent had DOs. Nearly 6 per- cent were physician assistants, and 15.5 percent were nurse practitioners. Two key takeaways: 1. Compared to 2019, the number of providers practicing in hospitals and multispecialty groups decreased slightly. 2. e number of respondents in solo practice or single-specialty groups rose 5 percent from 2019. Five statistics on providers' current practice setting: 1. Community hospital/for-profit or nonprofit: 25.2 percent 2. Faculty/research academic/university hospital: 12.5 percent 3. Multispecialty group: 15.8 percent 4. Single-specialty group: 26.1 percent 5. Solo practice: 15.3 percent n