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Sutter North Opens Surgery Center
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April 21, 2005
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Sutter North Medical Foundation announces the opening of their new surgery center in Yuba City’s Town Center. The surgery center will be the new office location for Sutter North physicians Eric Delman, D.O., Ashraf Ekdawy, M.D., and Larry Ozeran, M.D., as well as anesthesiologists Peter Bravos, M.D., and LaVonne Nickel, M.D.
The Surgery Center will allow patients needing outpatient surgery in most areas of medicine the opportunity to have surgery and be discharged the same day, without the high cost of an overnight hospital stay. Sutter North’s Surgery Center will offer surgeries addressing the needs of several surgical specialties including cosmetic, general surgery, gynecological, ENT, ophthalmology, orthopedic, podiatry and urology. In addition, Sutter North will offer anesthesiology and the lumbar steroid pain management procedure.
“Not only are we providing the community with new and much needed services close to home, patients no longer need to travel out of the area for state-of-the-art outpatient surgical care,” said Garry Vallier, M.D., medical director of the Surgery Center. “It will also save time for me and the other physicians who see patients in the Town Center since it’s so close to our offices. I used to have to drive to get to perform the operating room. It wasn’t practical to run back to the office between cases.”
The 11,000 square foot ambulatory surgery center occupies a suite on the 2nd floor of Sutter North’s newest facility at 460 Plumas Blvd., and includes spacious and private pre-op and recovery beds, separate pediatric recovery rooms, three surgical rooms, a minor procedure room, a large and comfortable waiting room, and a Family Counseling Office. Surgeries performed in the Surgery Center are done under local, general or regional anesthesia, allowing patients to be released within hours.
“Our surgery center offers the Yuba-Sutter community the highest quality outpatient medical technologies and staffing available,” said Vallier. “We have Picture Archiving Communications Systems (filmless x-rays), advanced surgical and anesthetic techniques, including both laparoscopic and arthroscopic procedural techniques, and we have the most comprehensive outpatient surgical staff in the area to ensure our patients get an appointment, consultation and surgery at a time that is most convenient for them.”
Sutter North Medical Foundation has been meeting the health care needs of the Yuba-Sutter area ever since they affiliated with Marysville Medical Group and Yuba Feather Medical Group physicians in 1993. As an affiliate of Sutter Health, Sutter North shares resources and best practices allowing for new facilities such as the Surgery Center. Sutter North also adopts safety, compliance and patient care standards set forth by Sutter Health, and was recently rated No. 1 in patient satisfaction throughout all medical foundations in Sutter Health, and above the 85th percentile throughout the West Coast.
“The facility is part of our long range plans to meet the ever-growing demand for healthcare services and our commitment to provide outstanding medical care to the members of our community,” said Dan Martinez, Board of Trustees Chair of Sutter North Medical Foundation.
Sutter North Medical Foundation is a not-for-profit organization providing health care throughout the Yuba-Sutter community. Their mission is to enhance the health and well being of people in the communities they serve through compassion and excellence in health care services. With care centers in Brownsville, Wheatland, Loma Rica, Marysville and Yuba City, Sutter North Medical Foundation employs 385 employees. The Foundation provides support services for the 65 physicians of the Sutter North Medical Group.
Sutter North Medical Foundation is affiliated with Sutter Health; one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit networks of community based health care providers, delivering high quality care in more than 100 Northern California communities. Sutter Health supports more than two dozen locally run acute care hospitals and physician organizations, medical research facilities, physician and nurse education programs, and region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health services.
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