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22 JOINT VENTURES $17 million facility with surgery center planned in New York By Patsy Newitt A $17 million multiuse building housing an ASC is planned in Buffalo, N.Y., Buffalo Business First reported Oct. 6. The ASC is slated to offer bariatric surgery. If the project goes ahead as planned, the facility will be the second standalone, non-hospital-owned ASC in Buffalo, according to Business First. Kanaka Partners, an affiliate of healthcare real estate developer Nidus Development, is planning the building. The facility will also include 43 affordable housing units and a health and wellness center. n US Eye enters North Carolina, Virginia with eye chain partnership By Marcus Robertson S arasota, Fla.-based multispecialty practice U.S. Eye is partnering with Chesapeake, Va.-based Center for Visual and Surgical Excel- lence and Elizabeth City, N.C.-based Albemarle Eye Center and Precision Eye Care, the company said Oct. 5. The deal marks U.S. Eye's entry into North Carolina and Virginia. The company also owns locations in Florida and South Carolina. Chicago-based Physician Growth Partners advised Albermarle in the deal, the details of which were not disclosed. n Texas ASC, gastroenterology clinic break ground in southern Texas By Ariana Portalatin D evelopers broke ground Sept. 30 on a two-building medical office campus that will include an Austin Gastroenterology clinic and surgery center in Leander, Texas. The gastroenterology facility included in the first building will span 20,000 square feet and is expected to open in October 2022. The second medical office building will span 27,000 square feet. No tenants have been confirmed for this building. The development was approved in January. n Partners, not competitors: Orthopedic group, hospitals open $19.1M ASC By Alan Condon T he Bone & Joint Center, Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center and Saratoga Hospital have opened a $19.1 million surgery center in Malta, N.Y., specializing in spine and orthopedic surgeries, according to the Albany Business Review. e Center for Advanced Ambulatory Surgery, which opened in September, includes six surgical suites, eight preoperative bays and eight postop- erative areas. Surgeons have access to the Rosa robot for knee replacement and Hana surgery tables for hip replacement. Adjacent to the facility is a 60,000-square-foot building that houses Malta Med Emergent Care, an Albany Med and Saratoga Hospital joint venture that provides imaging, lab tests and other preoperative services. Postoperative rehab is also offered in the building through one of Saratoga Hospital's regional therapy centers. In designing the ASC, Jared Roberts, MD, the facility's medical director, visited surgery centers in nearby cities and found that private practices have typically failed to form similar surgery center- hospital partnerships, according to the report. "ere's no other that's like this in the country that I am aware of, that has a relationship that's a true partnership with a hospital system and con- nected to a 24-hour emergent care," Dr. Roberts told the publication. e Albany-based Bone & Joint Center sees the hybrid partnership and its proximity to the emergent care facility as a way of capitalizing on outpatient migration leading to a more seamless transition between inpatient and outpatient care. "We thought we were far better off being partners than competitors with the local hospitals," said David Quinn, MD, an upper extremity surgeon at the practice. n