A view inside the pre-operative and post-anesthesia care unit at the Nazem Kadri Surgical Centre.
The facility
The Nazem Kadri Surgical Centre sits across the street from Victoria Hospital on Base Line Road East in London, Ontario. It features two state-of-the-art operating rooms and a 10-bed pre- and post-operative care area, as well as its own dedicated device sterilization suite. It handles select routine outpatient surgical procedures for healthy, low-risk patients, including ACL repairs as well as ankle, hip and knee arthroscopies.
Successes
To date, 4,944 surgeries have been successfully completed at the facility. In turn, this has freed up much needed operating room capacity at both Victoria Hospital and University Hospital. Ultimately, it’s enabled more patients to receive surgical care in a timelier fashion.
Patients appreciate the easily accessible environment the centre provides. Feedback surveys have consistently returned higher patient experience scores compared to those who underwent surgery in our traditional operating rooms (OR). Additionally, patients on average spend less time in post-op recovery than in a traditional OR environment. Eighty-two minutes less, in fact. Readmission rates are also impressively low with less than one per cent of patients undergoing another surgery within two weeks of their first.
The future
LHSC is in the process of applying for additional funding to expand the centre’s capacity, increasing the number of on-site operating rooms from two to six. If approved, it would be a multi-year project completed in two phases.
The Nazem Kadri Surgical Centre is the first of its kind in Ontario and it has garnered considerable interest both at home and globally with other hospitals interested in implementing similar publicly funded models of care.