HCA Healthcare and its joint venture partners have completed a medical office building with an ASC on its Houston campus. 

Physician Partners of America plans to open a multispecialty ASC in Orange Park, Fla.,, during the first quarter of next year.

Baton Rouge, La.-based Ochsner Medical Complex-The Grove opened a comprehensive pediatric clinic featuring an ASC.

A January 2019 plan  that included a new ASC in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb of Amherst has been scrapped, according to a Dec. 20 report from The Buffalo News.

Atlas Healthcare Partners and Banner Health, both based in Phoenix, have added three ASCs in Arizona, Atlas said Dec. 20.

Here are 18 hospitals and health systems that opened or announced plans for ASCs in November:

Crystal Lake-based OrthoIllinois received unanimous approval from the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board to build a $17.7 million ASC in Elgin, according to a Dec. 16 Chicago Tribune report.

Bangor-based Vision Care of Maine is planning to open an ASC in Auburn in 2022, according to a Dec. 15 Sun Journal report.

Physician Partners of America plans to open a multispecialty ASC in Florida during the first quarter of next year, the pain management practice said Dec. 14.

Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine broke ground on its ASC in Tinley Park, Ill., on Dec. 15.

ASC construction boomed in 2021. Here are 25 projects costing more than $100 million that include ASCs in 2021:

Lexington-based University of Kentucky got the green light to buy land for a proposed $6.9 million outpatient cancer treatment center and advanced ambulatory complex, the university said Dec. 14.  

Becker's ASC Review has covered the introduction of 113 new ASCs unaffiliated with hospitals or health systems in 2021 so far. The following is a state-by-state breakdown with links to original coverage.

A 77,500-square-foot medical office building in Minneapolis suburb St. Louis Park featuring three ASCs was completed in November.

Becker's ASC Review has covered the introduction of 281 new ASCs in 2021. November, August and October are the months that saw the most new ASCs with 33 each (eight entries in the November rundown were covered previously at different stages); April and May are next with 31 apiece.

Proliance Orthopedic Associates and Valley Medical Center, both based in Renton, Wash., are opening an ASC on Dec. 15, Proliance said. 

TidalHealth is considering the addition of an ASC to a $100 million project planned in Millsboro, Del., Coastal Point reported Dec. 9. 

Growing an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) network in today's competitive healthcare market can be a challenge. Phoenix-based Banner Health proactively mapped out its strategy to build an ambulatory surgery center network and partnered with Atlas Healthcare Partners (Atlas) to see it through.

In November, three Virginia health systems opened or planned ASCs costing a combined $435 million. 

At a Dec. 7 city commissioners' meeting, officials from Jackson Hospital in Marianna, Fla., protested the city's proposed incentives for the Tallahassee Orthopedic Center to open an outpatient facility there, ABC affiliate WMBB reported Dec. 8.