Becker's Healthcare December 30, 2025
In 2024, Becker’s reported on 12 academic medical centers that had opened or were developing new ASCs and outpatient centers. In 2025, that number increased to 14, representing a slow but steadily growing interest in ASC investments by academic medical centers.
“I think before the pandemic, there was this gigantic push to transition as much as we could to the outpatient arena,” Walter Allen Fink, DO, chief medical officer of UT Health San Antonio, told Becker’s.
At the time, he said, there was discussion among industry leaders that suggested that inpatient care could become nearly “obsolete,” reserved only for those in critical care.
“And then we had a pandemic, and it turns out we still need inpatient...
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