Approximately one week prior to your procedure, we will try to contact you to pre-register you for your procedure. If we are unable to contact you, please arrive a few minutes early to have time to verify your information prior to your procedure.
A nurse will contact you one or two days before you procedure to get a brief medical history.
Please bring your insurance cards, including Medicare or Medicaid cards, and photo ID (drivers license, etc.) to the Surgery Center the day of the surgery.
Arkansas Advance Directive
Because of the elective nature of the procedures performed at the Center, every effort will be made to sustain life during your stay at our facility. However, if you already have an Advanced Directive and/or Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare, or Living Will, please bring a copy of this document with you, to be filed in your medical record. In the event of transfer to another healthcare facility, a copy of this document will be provided to the receiving facility.
If you do not have the above aforementioned document, an Arkansas Declaration will be made available to you, if requested, as required by law. The Arkansas Declaration is your state’s living will, which allows you to state your wishes about medical care in the event your you either: (1) develop a terminal condition and are unable to make your own medical decisions; or (2) you are in a permanently unconscious state. The Declaration becomes effective when you are in either of these states, your physician and one other physician has determined you are in such a state, and the Declaration has been communicated to your doctor.
The Declaration lets you name a Health Care Proxy to make decisions about your medical care, including decisions about life support, if you can no longer make your own decisions about healthcare. Your proxy can only make decisions for you if you become terminally ill or permanently unconscious.
Physician Interest
You have the right to be aware of your physician’s interest in the Center. Further information can be provided at your request.