Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) is stepping up its focus on outpatient growth, CFO Michael Marks told investors during a Sept. 4 presentation. While leaders from HCA, which operates the large ambulatory surgery center (ASC) chain Surgery Ventures, have made similar remarks in the past, Marks’ fresh remarks underscore the growing importance of outpatient strategy among the nation’s major health care operators. “We’re pretty active on the outpatient side with M&A,” … [Read more...]
New Surgery Ventures ASC Blue River Surgery Center Opens in Kansas City
Hammes Partners – a national real estate consulting, development, investment and management firm – has completed its latest ambulatory surgery center (ASC) project. The Blue River Surgery Center in Kansas City is a 22,500-square-foot ASC that houses five operating rooms and two specialty procedure rooms for orthopedic, gastroenterology and other multi-specialty cases. Now open, the ASC was developed for Surgery Ventures, the ASC arm of HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA). The center – located in a … [Read more...]