A new medical office building in St. Louis Park, Minn., will house a surgery center and an ENT practice, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

ASCs engaging in "information blocking" practices could be subject to penalties under a new rule from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.

Methodist Mansfield (Texas) Ambulatory Surgery Center recently welcomed its first patients, according to Slayscion Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare development, management, consulting and technology company.

Campbell Clinic in Germantown, Tenn., opened a four-story medical office building with an orthopedic surgery center, the Murfreesboro Post reports.

The board of trustees of the University of Illinois in Chicago and Mesirow Financial entered into a public finance and credit tenant lease with structured debt products to fund the university's Outpatient Surgery Center and Specialty Clinics building.

An ophthalmology ASC is being developed in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to Davie Construction Co., a company involved in the project.

Work has started on Quincy (Ill.) Medical Group's ASC, according to Impact Strategies, a company involved in the project.

A 40,000-square-foot, orthopedics-focused surgery center and medical office building is nearing completion in Malta, N.Y., according to BBL Construction Services, a company involved in the project.

Work is progressing on Quincy (Ill.) Medical Group's ASC inside Quincy Mall, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports.

Vail (Colo.) Health is building a medical health center in Dillon, Colo., that will feature a surgery center, Summit Daily reports.

MedCore Partners is developing a joint-venture multispecialty ASC in Denton County, Texas.

Jasper, Ind.-based Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center will open Memorial Surgical Associates, a surgical clinic, Sept. 1, The Herald reports.

San Francisco-based Dignity Health is one of the main players behind the soon-to-open DLTA Surgery Center in Los Angeles.

There have been 109 new surgery centers that have either broken ground or opened in 2020 so far.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Hartford, Ky.-based Ohio County Healthcare Hospital $21.5 million to build a surgery center, local NBC affiliate 14 News reports.

A developer is partnering with a group of physicians to construct a medical office building with a surgery center in St. Louis Park, Minn., the Sun Sailor reports.

Rinehart Surgery Center, an affiliate of Orlando (Fla.) Health, opened in Lake Mary, Fla.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is seeking state permission to build an ASC inside the Hartford HealthCare Family Medical Center in Plainfield, Conn., the Norwich Bulletin reports.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ascension St. Thomas and Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International broke ground on an ASC in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Aug. 20, local news affiliate WGNS reports.

A new joint-venture ASC in Arizona has a limited number of investment opportunities available to surgeons interested in operating at the center.