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Sutter Health Breaks Ground on Outpatient Surgery Center

Sutter officials say the center will create 18 new permanent jobs and serve 1250 patients in its first year.

Representatives from Sutter Health and the City of Elk Grove gathered Tuesday morning for a chilly groundbreaking ceremony for the healthcare corporation's new outpatient surgery center at 8170 Laguna Blvd.

Set to open in the spring of 2012, the center will offer minor surgical procedures like knee reconstruction for marathoners and bunion removals for the elderly, said Andrew Hudnut, a family physician who oversees Sutter's Elk Grove division.

Patients currently have to travel to Sacramento for those procedures, he said.

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The new $10.8 million facility will sit next to the medical office buildings Sutter constructed in 1991 and is part of a larger plan to build a community hospital on the site.

Elk Grove Mayor Steven Detrick said the project will generate 160 construction jobs. Sutter officials said they also plan to hire another 18 permanent employees to run the center, including nurses and other clinical staff, secretaries and janitors.

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Doctors will perform about 1250 procedures at the center in its first year of operation, Sutter officials estimate.

Sutter is not the only hospital chain expanding in Elk Grove. Catholic Healthcare West is also building an outpatient surgery center on Elk Grove Blvd near Bruceville Road, and Kaiser Permanente plans to open new medical offices near the Promenade Mall site later this year.


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