In honor of National Ambulatory Surgery Center Day, an Open House will be held at the Endoscopy Center of St. Louis – Des Peres. The event showcases how these facilities can benefit people seeking same-day surgery or diagnostic surgical procedures.
Healthcare professionals will be on site to answer questions about same day surgery procedures and insurance coverage concerns.
Ambulatory surgery centers, or ASCs, are facilities where medical procedures that do not require hospital admission are performed. ASCs provide cost-effective services and a convenient environment that is less stressful than what many hospitals can offer. Patients who choose an ASC arrive on the scheduled day of their procedure, receive personalized, specialized care from highly skilled physicians and nurses in a fully equipped operating room and recover room, all without hospital admission. Patients can generally choose facilities that are conveniently located, offer plentiful (and often free) parking and comfortable waiting areas for family members.
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ASCs may perform surgeries in several specialties or dedicate their services to one specialty, such as eye care, colonoscopy screenings or sports medicine.
The Endoscopy Center of St. Louis provides upper endoscopies and colonoscopies in a state-of-the-art facility. Board certified endoscopists along with specially trained nurses and anesthesia providers perform colonoscopies daily. Colonoscopy is the single most reliable source for early colon cancer detection.