Madison, WI – SSM Health is excited to announce plans to build a new Ambulatory Surgery Center on our existing Sun Prairie campus at 2840 O’Keeffe Avenue. This new outpatient surgery center, expected to open in 2025, will allow SSM Health to better meet the needs of our growing Madison metro communities.
We will be relocating our Regent Street Davis Duehr Dean Eye Care and Retail Optical Services, as well as our Madison Optical Laboratory to this new location. The new surgery center will also offer additional operating rooms to provide eye and orthopedic outpatient surgical services.
“A growing, thriving city, Sun Prairie attracts people from a number of surrounding communities, and we are invested in growing with it,” says Sue Anderson, SSM Health Regional President. “Our new center will alleviate some of the growing constraints we are facing on our SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison campus, allowing us to open access for more timely care when and where our patients need it.”
The new Ambulatory Surgery Center will be conveniently located along the Highway 151 corridor for easy access by patients from the surrounding counties and will house SSM Health’s Eye Care Center of Excellence.
“The opportunity to keep our clinic, surgery center and Madison optical lab in a single location will allow us to continue our exceptional patient care, prepare us for future growth and improve the patient experience with this new Eye Center of Excellence,” says Dr. Julia Agapov, SSM Health Wisconsin Regional Medical Director for Eye Care Services. “Our entire team is excited to have the space to continue to advance eye care services for the greater Madison area."
Building out additional surgical space will help SSM Health to continue to meet the growing demands for outpatient surgical services. “In our community where people want to remain active for much longer, the demand for joint replacements and other orthopedic services that keep them active and engaged continues to rise,” says Dr. Jay Christensen, SSM Health orthopedic surgeon. “It will be great to have an additional location where we can provide that care that our patients deserve and expect.”
SSM Health currently has a free-standing emergency center on the site of the new campus expansion. As part of this project, we will be consolidating those emergency services to our Level 2 Trauma Center at St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison. When our free-standing emergency center opened in 2009, the health care landscape was very different. Today, there are more care options available.
Patients will be able to access emergency services at our Level 2 Trauma Center at St. Mary’s – Madison. Urgent Care services also are available nearby at our Dean Medical Group clinic on Madison’s east side at 1821 S. Stoughton Road. Primary/Specialty Care services will continue to be available at our Dean Medical Group – Sun Prairie clinic located at 10 Tower Drive.
To meet the changing needs for health care across our region, SSM Health is continually evaluating the best ways to provide exceptional health care for the greatest value for all the communities we serve.
