Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus begins scheduling Saturday elective surgeries

Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus is now providing patients the ability to schedule certain elective surgeries and procedures on Saturdays. Specialties that currently qualify are urology, plastic surgery, head and neck, orthopedics and spine, with the potential for additional specialties to be added moving forward.

The initiative by Cleveland Clinic to book more Saturday elective surgeries at its main hospital builds on its move last year to extend hours for outpatient specialty appointments and elective surgeries and procedures to most evenings and Saturdays at many of its Northeast Ohio locations.

Scott Steele, MD, president of the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus Submarket, said patient feedback to those moves has been extremely positive, and expects a similar response to the Main Campus announcement. “Patients appreciate having more options for care at times that work for them,” he said.

Since July, Cleveland Clinic says, it has performed nearly 700 elective surgeries and procedures over weekends across four of its facilities: Lutheran Hospital, Avon Hospital, Beachwood Ambulatory Surgery Center, and Twinsburg Ambulatory Surgery Center, “with more operations being added each month.” The highest volume in its Saturday work has been endoscopies.