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Busy start for surgery center
Staff, patients pleased with Northside site
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Surgical technicians David Moore, left, and Lestephen Wiley organize and sanitize tools at the new Northside Hospital-Forsyth Outpatient Surgery Center. - photo by Autumn Vetter
More than 100 patients have used a new Northside Hospital-Forsyth facility in just a little more than a month.The Northside-Forsyth Outpatient Surgery Center opened June 18 at 1055 Haw Creek Pkwy., near the main hospital campus.Susan Spencer, manager of surgical services at the hospital, said the new facility, which is nearly 15,000 square feet, includes large pre-op and recovery areas, as well as four operating rooms.“The operating rooms are almost 500 square feet each, which is big for operating rooms,” she said. Spencer said facility can handle a number of outpatient procedures, ranging from general and plastic surgery to gastrointestinal, eye, and ear, nose and throat procedures. “The most common [procedure] so far has been cataract surgery,” she said.