Each of the three Saint John’s Health Center’s Ambulatory Surgery Center’s (ASC) operating rooms is outfitted with advanced lighting and two booms to keep the operating equipment within easy reach. As in the Howard Keck Diagnostic Center, images and other patient information is digitally transmitted from the diagnostic labs and can be readily shared with staff in all the ambulatory suites.

With parking conveniently located directly behind the center, patients enter from the parking lot under a covered awning to a reception and waiting area. Prior to surgery, patients will be prepared and comfortably await their procedures in the private, screened pre-op bays. After surgery, patients will return to the bay area to rest and recover. When ready to leave the facility, patients will be taken to the waiting room to connect with loved ones, who will transport them home.

The ASC also has:

·    Equipment that is ceiling-mounted to allow for ease of movement and visibility of the operating field from anywhere in the room

·    Two monitors attached to the booms

·    Equipped for minimally invasive procedures

·    Yag Laser program for posterior capsulotomy (cataracts)

·    Anesthesiologist care