Huntington Hospital’s Surgical Services Pavilion offers patients an environment that emphasizes safety, convenience, and privacy.

Our surgical suite has more than doubled in square footage. Ten new operating rooms provide our surgeons with adequate space in order to offer patients the latest surgical technologies. Robotic arms, flat screen monitors, harmonic scalpels and specialized lasers can be deployed from above, keeping the floor space cleared of obstructive equipment. Suspended from the ceiling of each operating room is a Xenon light. Huntington Hospital is one of a handful in the nation to provide this soft, natural light within every one of its operating rooms. During video-assisted procedures, green light floods the operating room to cut down on video monitor glare.

At the hub of the new operating rooms is the core, a centrally located, sterile nucleus that buzzes with activity. Registered nurses, surgeons, and technologists circulate throughout this area. Nurses keep track of the activities, equipment, and staffing needs of each of the operating rooms via a sophisticated video monitoring system. Unique glass-paneled “pass-throughs” enable staff to provide sterile equipment to each room as needed.

A specialized dumbwaiter transports sterile surgical instruments and supplies into the central core directly from the hospital’s Sterile Supply Department. Used equipment is removed from the operating rooms via the area’s perimeter and sent back to Sterile Supply via a separate lift. This “one-way” system improves sterility and infection control within the operating rooms.

A renovated Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) further enhances the surgical experience for patients. On the horizon is the relocation of our Ambulatory Surgery Unit so that it is contiguous with the operating rooms and PACU, further adding to the comfort and convenience of the surgical experience for patients.