By Clint Wolf - July 31 2023

 

BELOIT

OrthoMidwest Surgery Center welcomed guests to its official opening ceremony for its Beloit facility Friday on the site of the former Manor Restaurant on Freeman Parkway.

The orthopedic surgery center is the eighth facility of OrthoMidwest, which has centers in Rockford, Elgin Algonquin and McHenry, in Illinois.

Dr. John Bottros, an orthopedic adult reconstructive surgeon, is the medical director of the Beloit facility at 2102 Freeman Parkway. He said the center in Beloit will be staffed by eight or nine surgeons as well as up to 60 other staff including nurses, medical technicians, anesthesiologists and other personnel.

Procedures to be performed at the Beloit facility will include spine procedures as well as hip and knee replacement. Bottros said there also is the potential for shoulder replacement surgery in the future. The center also will do arthroscopy.

The 26,571-square-foot center has four operating rooms, six pre-operation rooms, 12 patient recovery rooms and six care suites for patients who have to be admitted for an overnight stay.

Bottros has been part of OrthoIllinois/OrthoMidwest for 11 years, and he said with the hip and knee replacement procedures, patients normally can go home to recuperate after three hours.

“We have done about 1,500 joint replacement procedures between 2016 and 2023,” he said. “We’re passionate about what we do and the comfort of patients,” Bottros said.

He said the Beloit facility is one of the first fully integrated facilities in the area featuring artificial intelligence in tracking patients and facilities use. The staff will be able to track when a patient leaves the operating room, when they are in recovery and other information.

“It will help us understand the efficiencies of our health care delivery much better,” he said. “This is a really patient-centric focus.”

Each of the operating rooms are equipped with Zimmer Biomet Omni Suite Intelligent Operating Room technology.

The new surgery center was built on the former site of the Manor Restaurant on Freeman Parkway. The property has remained vacant for over 10 years.

OrthoMidwest expects to do up to 25 hip and knee surgeries a week.

Construction plans for the estimated $14 million building project were approved by the City of Beloit Community Development Department in January of 2022.

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