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29 JOINT VENTURES Baylor St. Luke's building $426M medical office building with surgery center By Eric Oliver H ouston-based Baylor St. Luke's is expanding its McNair Campus by building a 400,000-square- foot, $426 million medical office building that will include a surgery center, the Houston Business Journal reported. The 12-story building will house the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, and will eventually con- solidate oncology services from three separate locations on the campus. The facility will also have an ASC, a pain center, a radiology department and other services. Baylor St. Luke's expects to open the building in early 2023. n 12-OR ASC part of $295M Florida orthopedic hospital expansion By Eric Oliver O rlando (Fla.) Health expects to break ground on a surgery center with 12 operating rooms in No- vember, the Orlando Business Journal reported. The surgery center will be part of a $295 million orthope- dic hospital expansion built by Orlando Health. The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Hospital will have 75 beds and feature an outpatient surgery center and medical pavilion. The hospital will have 10 ORs. Developers expect to open the surgery center and medi- cal pavilion in late 2022 and the hospital in the summer of 2023. n Expanding ASC capacity key method to tackle elective surgery backlog By Eric Oliver A nn Arbor-based Michigan Medicine physicians published a paper suggesting three methods to tackle the non-urgent surgery backlog. The paper, published in Annals of Surgery, argued non- urgent surgeries would need to be addressed to ensure patients don't face poor outcomes once their surgery can be performed. The three strategies they suggested: 1. Expand operating room schedules and ASC capacity. 2. Grow telemedicine use. 3. Be transparent about surgical billing. n Firm opens $26M medical office building with surgery center in DC By Eric Oliver A developer completed a $26 million medical office building redevelopment in Washington, D.C., after beginning a two-year renovation, the Washington Business Journal reported. The building brought back 90 percent of its original ten- ants. The building has a surgery center, on-site radiology, labo- ratory testing and a pharmacy. Developers upgraded its mechanical system, installed a fitness facility and added a conference center. n