Surgery Center opens in Fairbanks.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

The Surgery Center of Fairbanks opened in mid-November. Dr. Mark Wade, an orthopedic surgeon, is one of the center's physician owners. The center features two operating rooms with integrated video endoscopy equipment and high-definition, large-screen monitors on extending arms that surgeons can pull near the operating table to view patient X-rays, rather than walking to wall-mounted screens.

The center also has six pre-operative rooms and 16 recovery bays. The building includes 15,000 square feet of medical office space, which is due to be completed in early 2011.

"This new facility already has made a positive economic impact on our community both in terms of construction dollars spent and now the employment of 16 full-...