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Archive > October, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 10

Hospital Closes, Reopens as an ASC

This unlikely transformation may give Texas facility a new lease on life.

Cathy Coffman, Contributing Editor

Hospitals are snapping up ambulatory surgical centers and converting them to hospital outpatient surgery centers, but here's a new one: a hospital becoming an ASC. That's what happened a couple months ago in Arlington, Texas, when the JPS Diagnostic and Surgery Hospital closed its doors and 10 days later re-opened as the JPS Surgical Center.

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