Healthcare development and management company Hillcrest Capital Partners plans to develop and operate 15 Michigan surgery centers with physician investors by the end of 2020, Crain's Detroit Business reports.

The University of Illinois Chicago Department of Pediatric Dentistry received a $10,000 grant that will help fund expanded services at a new ASC, the Daily Herald reports.

Healthcare costs in the United States have hit $3.5 trillion per year, equating to $15,000 per year for every man, woman and child in the nation. The average costs for surgical services exceed $700 billion per year. As the healthcare industry attempts to lower these statistics by implementing value-based medicine, more procedures are driven to the lower cost ASC setting. As a result, patient volume in hospital outpatient departments is dramatically decreasing.

Atlanta-based Grady Health System is spending $231.3 million to build a medical office building with an ASC and expand an AIDS and HIV treatment center, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The Center for Advanced Healthcare at Brownwood will feature an ASC and more than 25 outpatient specialties, according to The Villages Daily Sun.

Houston ASC in Georgia submitted a letter of intent to the Georgia Department of Community Health for a multispecialty ASC.

Work is underway on a new 9,650-square-foot ophthalmic ASC in Elizabethtown, Ky., according to Cornerstone Companies President Taggart Birge.

Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine plans to establish a multispecialty ASC, according to a letter of intent filed Oct. 27. 

Lawrenceville, Ga.-based East Atlanta Eye Surgery Center wants to become a single-specialty center, according to a letter of intent filed Oct. 27.

Abilene (Texas) Surgery Center is coming together, according to Chris Whittle, RN, nurse administrator at Killeen-based Central Texas Day Surgery Center and Abilene Spine and Joint Surgery Center.

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care has a medical building project underway in Cary, N.C., according to DPR Construction.

Adirondack Health will soon open an ambulatory surgery unit at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, N.Y., the Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports.

Wilmington (N.C.) Eye plans to open the first and only ophthalmology ASC in eastern North Carolina, near its main practice.

In mid-November, Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care and The Jackson (Tenn.) Clinic revealed plans to build an outpatient surgery center in North Jackson.

Only a dozen states don't require certificate-of-need approval for outpatient surgery center development and expansion, according to Transwestern, a commercial real estate company.

Outpatient surgery center projects are subject to certificate-of-need requirements in the overwhelming majority of U.S. states, according to Transwestern, a commercial real estate company.

Richens Eye Center is opening an ASC this fall in St. George, Utah, St. George News reports.

The Cherokee Nation and Indian Health Services are holding a grand opening ceremony for a $200 million tribal outpatient health center in Tahlequah, Okla., Nov. 14.

LuccaHealth Medical Specialty Center opened Oct. 25 to provide specialty care and same-day surgery in partnership with New York City-based New York University School of Medicine.

Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare plans to open its fourth outpatient surgery center in spring 2020.