Contained within the Main Office building, the Surgery Center is our dedicated orthopedic outpatient ambulatory surgery facility which contains seven patient rooms, a recovery room that can accommodate three patients and two state-of-the-art orthopedic operating rooms, including live X-ray capability. A waiting room, isolated from the main waiting room, includes TV, coffee and snacks to provide a quiet, comfortable environment for waiting family members or friends.
The Surgery Center provides many advantages compared to other facilities:
Quality - There are no shortcuts here. From preoperative evaluation and testing through recovery and discharge to home, the standards maintained are equivalent to those at a hospital. But at other facilities the employees, the instruments and the equipment need to be adaptable to a variety of specialties. At the Surgery Center each employee is an expert in his/her facet of orthopedic surgery and every instrument and piece of equipment is chosen because of its specific advantage in orthopedics. The Surgery Center has been continuously accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care since it opened in 2002.
Convenience – Since patients are already registered patients of Rush Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, a lengthy registration/admission process is avoided and patients already know the location and the comfortable environment of the office.
Efficiency – Turnover time between surgeries is approximately three times faster at the Surgery Center than at a hospital. Additionally, scheduled surgery times are not likely to be delayed or “bumped” by other emergency cases.
Cost – It is quite likely that the cost of your procedure will be less at the Surgery Center than at a hospital since the Surgery Center is dramatically more efficient than the hospital and since it doesn’t have to maintain 24-hour staffing.