Becker's Healthcare November 26, 2025
ASC growth is heating up nationwide, but states in the South are expanding their ASC markets at an even more rapid pace.
Florida, for example, has become a proving ground for ASC growth, with multiple new centers opening last year through partnerships between health systems and physician groups in Panama City, Brandon, Daytona Beach, St. Johns and Jacksonville Beach.
Academic health centers in the region have also begun investing more heavily in ASCs. In 2024, Becker’s reported on 12 academic centers building out their ASC networks — seven of which were in the South.
Bernadette Purser, senior administrator at VCU Health in Richmond, Va., told Becker’s that ASCs are an important tool in expanding patients’ access to surgical services...
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