Unifeye Vision Partners Expands With Premier Surgery Center Partnership

Unifeye Vision Partners Expands With Premier Surgery Center Partnership

Unifeye Vision Partners (UVP), a portfolio company of private equity firm Waud Capital Partners, announced on March 3 the completion of a strategic partnership with Premier Surgery Center, an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in Santa Maria, California. This represents UVP’s fifth ASC in the state of California and the 17th member of the growing UVP community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2007 by physician partners from Pacific Eye Surgeons, Shepard Eye Center, California Retinal Consultants, ADV Vision and Central Coast Retinal, the ASC serves patients in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. The 13 physicians and their team treat ophthalmology, ENT and... Read More »
Unifeye Vision Partners Expands With Premier Surgery Center Partnership

TriasMD Acquires Southern California Ambulatory Surgery Center

TriasMD announced on February 28 its acquisition of Gateway Surgery Center, an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in Santa Clarita, California. The move delivers on TriasMD’s promise to expand the data/evidence-driven ambulatory surgery center (ASC) model created by DISC Sports & Spine Center. With the addition of this ASC, DISC is expanding its reach, building on the patient community it has established in Orange County. As part of the acquisition, TriasMD becomes managing partner of the facility – to be renamed DISC Surgery Center at Gateway – and will work with its physician partners to integrate DISC’s standards in the form of protocols, state-of-the-art equipment and... Read More »
Spire Orthopedic Partners Acquires Practice in New York’s Hudson Valley

Spire Orthopedic Partners Acquires Practice in New York’s Hudson Valley

Spire Orthopedic Partners has acquired Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County and The Surgery Center at Orthopedic Associates. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1975, Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County has 24 subspecialty-trained physicians practicing across five locations and an ambulatory surgery center (The Surgery Center at Orthopedic Associates). The facilities are in the Hudson Valley locations of Poughkeepsie, Kingston, New Windsor, East Fishkill and Rhinebeck, New York. Spire Orthopedic Partners, a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company LLC, is a national partnership of orthopedic practices providing the support, capital and operational resources... Read More »
Sunvera Group Acquires Zimm Cataract & Laser Center, Premier Surgical Center

Sunvera Group Acquires Zimm Cataract & Laser Center, Premier Surgical Center

Sunvera Group has acquired Zimm Cataract & Laser Center and its affiliate Premier Surgical Center. The transaction establishes Sunvera Group’s presence in the Pennsylvania market and extends its network of ophthalmology practices and surgery centers. Zimm Cataract & Laser Center and Premier Surgical Center are based in Erie, Pennsylvania. McGuireWoods LLP provided legal services to Sunvera. Physician Growth Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor to Zimm Cataract & Laser Center and Wade, Goldstein, Landau & Abruzzo, P.C. provided legal services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Zimm Cataract & Laser Center provides services such as cataract surgery,... Read More »
Prism Vision Group Acquires Lakeview Surgery Center

Prism Vision Group Acquires Lakeview Surgery Center

Prism Vision Group has acquired Lakeview Surgery Center. This marks Prism’s sixth ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and the second in the Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia market. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lakeview Surgery Center in Bowie, Maryland, is a 9,900-square-foot facility that has two operating suites and exclusively provides ophthalmic surgery five days per week. Prism Vision Group (formerly known as NJ/Retina), a portfolio company of private equity firm Quad-C Management, is a physician-led ophthalmology administrative services care provider. Launched in July 2019, Prism has 870 locations, more than 150 providers and more than 1,300 employees throughout New... Read More »
Occupancy Rates, Job Growth Provide Strength for Healthcare Real Estate

Occupancy Rates, Job Growth Provide Strength for Healthcare Real Estate

Steve Bolen provided encouraging news for attendees at the December 13 New York Healthcare Summit in New York City’s financial district. “For 2022, health care was among the top targeted sectors for expansion within virtually every one of our capital sources,” said Bolen, the U.S. head of healthcare real estate at LaSalle Investment Management. “For 2023, healthcare real estate is among the top targeted sectors for expansion for our clients.” Bolen’s confidence hasn’t been shaken by speculation that next year could bring an economic downturn for the United States.  “There’s a growing chorus of economists suggesting that a recession could be a reality in 2023,” Bolen said. “That is a... Read More »