Hospitals are considering ambulatory surgery centers as part of their outpatient strategy, either by acquiring them from physicians, developing joint venture ASCs with physician owners or opening their own centers.
Here are 11 hospital and health system deals for ASCs in 2016:
January
Gillette, Wyo.-based Campbell County Health acquired Powder River Surgery Center in Gillette.
March
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health acquired majority stake in South Shore Surgery Center in Bay Shore.
Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables acquired West Palm Beach-based Northpoint Surgery Center in partnership with AmSurg.
July
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health acquired majority stake in Melville (N.Y.) Surgery Center.
August
St. David's HealthCare in Austin, Texas, acquired South Austin (Texas) Surgery Center.
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, La., purchased majority stake in a Slidell, La.-based joint venture surgery center owned by physicians and United Surgical Partners International.
September
Sioux Falls (S.D.) Specialty Hospital purchased Prairie States Surgical Center in Sioux Falls from the physicians at CORE Orthopedics.
October
CHI St. Luke's Health in Houston acquired Woodlands (Texas) Ambulatory Surgery Center and rebranded it as CHI St. Luke's Health Surgery Center.
November
Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health acquired the SurgiCenter of Baltimore in Owings Mills, Md., and Ellicott City (Md.) Ambulatory Surgery Center.
December
Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y., acquired a 70 percent stake in Suffolk Surgery Center in Shirley, N.Y.
Norwich, Conn.-based William W. Backus Hospital received approval from Connecticut's Department of Public Health to acquire a 51 percent ownership of Constitution Surgery Center East in Waterford.