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28 JOINT VENTURES The Steadman Clinic's joint- venture ASC is now underway By Angie Stewart C onstruction has started on a medical office building and ASC for e Stead- man Clinic, Orthopedic Care Partners, Aspen Valley Hospital and Vail Health, ac- cording to an Oct. 8 announcement. Six things to know: 1. e 65,000-square-foot, three-story devel- opment in Basalt, Colo., is expected to be fin- ished in one year and welcome its first patients in January 2022. 2. An ASC will occupy nearly 37,000 square feet on the building's second floor, featuring four operating rooms with two shelled for future growth. e ASC will also be equipped with a procedure room, a biologics lab, nine preoperative and postoperative rooms, and 14 recovery rooms. 3. e Steadman Clinic's space on the first floor will include physician offices, 16 exam rooms, a biologics lab, and a casting room. An X-ray and a 3-Tesla MRI are among the imag- ing services to be offered. 4. Steadman Philippon Research Institute will operate a regenerative medicine laboratory inside the building, along with conference space and offices focused on orthopedics and aging research. e lab will enroll patients in clinical trials. 5. Physical and occupational therapy pro- viders and hand services staff will deliver rehabilitation services on the third floor, sharing the space with SPRI and The Stead- man Clinic. 6. e facility's groundbreaking comes roughly a month aer Vail, Colo.-based e Steadman Clinic and Gainesville, Fla.-based Orthopedic Care Partners finalized a partnership with Aspen (Colo.) Valley Hospital. n Children's Minnesota could close ASC because of procedure volume declines By Eric Oliver M inneapolis-based Children's Minnesota is considering "signifi- cant" layoffs and facility closures in response to the financial ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minnesota StarTri- bune reported. The system hasn't determined how many could lose their jobs, but the Minnesota Nurses Association said its members believe more than 100 jobs could be lost. A Children's-owned surgery center in Minnetonka, Minn., has been closed for a significant time and could close permanently because pre-pandemic procedure volume losses haven't returned. Children's operates two inpatient hospitals in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., with higher-complexity diabetes and neurological cases being treated out of St. Paul. Children's is debating whether to transition all high- complexity cases to its Minneapolis facility. Children's also owns and operates 12 primary care clinics, six rehabilitation centers and nine specialty care sites. The system employs 5,458 people. n Kettering closes surgery center at Ohio hospital, promises to build new facility By Eric Oliver X enia, Ohio-based Greene Memorial Hospital closed its surgery center in March and stopped providing intensive care in Febru- ary because of concerns about the building's age, the Springfield News-Sun reported. Dayton, Ohio-based Kettering Health Network discontinued services at the building, but plans to build a new facility in Xenia that is expected to reintroduce the services and provide "sustainability for decades to come," said Kettering representative Jimmy Phillips. Mr. Phillips said Greene Memorial couldn't retain its surgery center or intensive care services without major financial investment. Greene Memo- rial is 75 years old. Greene County officials decided in October to continue collecting on a levy that was passed in 2018 to support Greene Memorial Hospital. The commissioners debated discontinuing the levy because of the reduced service load. Commissioner Bob Glaser said: "We're waiting to see what Ketering is going to do with Greene Memorial. They haven't told us and we don't know. Until we get that information we're sort of standing pat. It's kind of a game of checkers and the next move is up to Kettering." County commissioners passed a resolution June 25 demanding the hospital reinstate the services by Sept. 1. Kettering Health did not rein- state the services. Kettering has not yet announced plans for the new facility in Xenia. n