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ASC Transactions
8 Hospitals & Health
Systems Opening ASCs
By Megan Wood
Here are eight hospitals and health systems opening or expanding ambula-
tory surgery centers.
Athens (Ala.)-Limestone Hospital plans to build a $35 million ASC in Ath-
ens, but funding issues could derail the project.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Glen Mills, Pa., opened the Brandy-
wine Valley Specialty Care and Ambulatory Surgery Center.
Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo, Texas, plans to double its
3,800-square-foot ASC and medical office.
Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol, Pa., plans to reopen an ASC on the hospi-
tal's campus that closed its doors several years ago.
A group of nine investors has proposed Vermont's second surgery center, to
be called the Green Mountain Surgery Center in Colchester.
Freeman Health System, based in Joplin, Mo., acquired and renamed a sur-
gery center in Kansas. e surgery center's new name is Freeman Surgical
Center.
Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas, has opened two new
facilities, one of which is an outpatient surgery center.
Hauser-Ross Eye Institute in Sycamore, Ill., recently moved to a larger facil-
ity and plans to open its own surgery center in October, called the Hauser-
Ross Ambulatory Surgical Center. n
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