The growing number of surgeries at
has prompted the hospital to team up with an Alabama-based provider of
specialty surgical services’ facility in
The facility, renamed the University Ambulatory Surgery
Center after the partnership was announced late last month, will act as the
headquarters for outpatient surgeries normally performed at
It will continue to be managed by Surgical Care Affiliates
of Birmingham, Ala.
Approximately 3,000 to 4,000 outpatient surgeries will be
performed at the surgery center each year, said Brendan Kremer, administrative
director of muscular, skeletal and surgical services at UCSD Medical Center, in
a press release.
The surgery center has three operating rooms and will focus
on orthopedics, pain management, ophthalmology, general surgery,
otolaryngology, urology, plastics and podiatry procedures. Over the last three
years, UCSD Medical Center has reported a 23-percent increase in outpatient
procedures, according to Kremer.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is the first time
that
has partnered with a surgical services provider.
