New Intermountain Park City Outpatient Surgery Center Provides Efficient, Lower Cost Surgery Options

The new Intermountain Park City Surgery Center is a state-of-the-art facility which will allow doctors to perform a wide range of same day orthopedic surgeries. A joint Intermountain Health and The Orthopedic Partners, the new ambulatory surgery center (ASC) has four operating rooms and spacious recovery rooms that patients will use after their procedures, where they can relax until it’s time to go home.

“It’s incredible how far we’ve come in surgical care and this center is going to be another major step in quality healthcare,” said Vern Cooley, MD, orthopedic surgeon at Park City Surgery Center. “Orthopedic surgeries that used to take hours and require several nights in the hospital, now can be done in hours, with patients back home in their bed that night.”

The new Intermountain Outpatient Surgery Center is one of 15 new ambulatory surgery centers Intermountain has opened or plans to open in Utah by the end of 2024.

“Outpatient same day surgeries are becoming a bigger part of healthcare, especially as we see technology and techniques improve surgical care,” said Lori Weston, Intermountain Park City Hospital president. “By making the process more efficient we can also lower costs, which benefits our patients.”

The facility in Park City will be a vital access point for patients throughout the Wasatch Back and other nearby areas. This means they won’t have to travel as far for their surgical care. The center will also serve patients from around the world as Park City is a major destination for both tourism and elite athletes.

An ambulatory surgery center specializes in select procedures outside of a hospital setting, which allows them to be streamlined because the same procedure is done over and over. Unlike most ambulatory surgery centers, the Park City Surgery Center is unique in that it can have patients stay overnight, but it’s rare and many people patients go home the same day.

Because ambulatory surgery centers don’t have the same volume of staff and equipment to handle multiple overnight stays, it helps lowers the overall cost of surgical care.

About Intermountain Health

Headquartered in Utah with locations in seven states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, medical groups with some 3,900 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plans division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare by using evidence-based best practices to consistently deliver high-quality outcomes at sustainable costs. For more information or updates, see https://intermountainhealthcare.org/news.