Becker's Healthcare June 1, 2023
Health systems across the country are expanding their outpatient portfolios and forming joint ventures to develop more ambulatory surgery centers as care continues to migrate from inpatient to outpatient settings.
Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health System is the latest health system to partner with an ASC operator. The 48-hospital system has teamed with Compass Surgical Partners to develop more than 30 ASCs across multiple states.
Compass will work with the health system to develop ASCs throughout its footprint, which includes Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York and Florida. The network could expand into other states, such as North Carolina.
“Our view, over time, is that more complex procedures will come out of the hospitals,” Compass President Sean...