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State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

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Archive > February, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 2

What's Fueling the Hospital Building Boom?

A new spirit of cooperation among hospitals and physicians is making the joint venture a popular way to partner.

John Crawford, Contributing Editor

The question no longer is which hospitals are building surgery centers in partnership with physicians, but which ones aren't. While it's hard to know how much of the $100 billion that the country's 4,900 community hospitals have spent on new facility construction over the past five years has gone toward outpatient surgery, many of the building cranes seem to be standing over joint-ventured ambulatory surgical centers.

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