Akron Children’s Outpatient Surgery Center, Beachwood opened this summer.
Akron Children’s services in Beachwood are filling an important need by providing timely, pediatric care to children in greater Cleveland.
A new Outpatient Surgery Center, located at 3775 Orange Place, Suite 102, opened this summer. The center provides pediatric gastroenterology, orthopedic and otolaryngology surgery, with plans to add pediatric urology in January and pediatric dentistry in February.
“We have replicated the care we provide in our outpatient surgery center in Akron with the same surgeons, anesthesiologists and surgical services staff caring for patients in Beachwood,” said Daniel Goldstein, MD, a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist, director of opioid stewardship and medical director of the Akron Children’s Outpatient Surgery Center, Beachwood.
Pediatric anesthesiologist Daniel Goldstein, MD, serves as the medical director of the Akron Children’s Outpatient Surgery Center in Beachwood.
Dr. Goldstein is proud to be part of these expanded services for families in Beachwood and surrounding communities. He was raised in the area and now lives there with his own family.
“We are increasing access by alleviating long wait times for surgery and making it easier and more convenient for families to receive exceptional surgical care close to home,” he said. “Our team of pediatric specialists is focused on meeting the unique needs of infants, children and teens.”
This includes using anesthesia equipment and techniques tailored to the size of each patient to support successful surgical outcomes.
Similar to other Akron Children’s facilities, the state-of-the-art surgery center features a child-friendly design with bright colors, ample natural light and artwork from local schoolchildren. It complements Akron Children’s specialty services in Beachwood, which currently offers outpatient pediatric specialty care in allergy/immunology, cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedics and otolaryngology. A pediatric urgent care also opened in Beachwood this summer.
Akron Children’s has pioneered the perioperative surgical home model of care in pediatrics, which is also being implemented in Beachwood. This model of care uses a pre-surgery clinic to ensure patients are appropriate candidates for outpatient surgery and improve care coordination from the time surgery is scheduled, throughout the procedure and recovery at home. If additional consults, clearances, evaluations or tests are required before surgery, the staff will assist families in completing them and reviewing results to ensure each patient is optimized and ready for surgery. The use of telehealth for straightforward cases helps to make the pre-surgery screening process more convenient for patient families.
Julie Wei, MD, MMM, FAAP, director of the Division of Otolaryngology, performed some of the first surgical cases in the Outpatient Surgery Center in Beachwood.
One of the first patients in the new outpatient surgery center was toddler Elaina Gross, who received ear tubes from Julie Wei, MD, MMM, FAAP, director of the Division of Otolaryngology and the Dr. Alfred J. Magoline Endowed Chair in Otolaryngology.
She was referred to Dr. Wei in Akron Children’s Ear, Nose and Throat Center by her pediatrician, Justin Wildemann, MD, Akron Children’s Pediatrics, Mansfield. Elaina’s mother, Kaylee McFarland opted to have the surgery in Beachwood so it could be done as soon as possible.
“We continue to focus on creating greater access for patients and families for both outpatient clinic visits and outpatient surgical care, through both increased geographic footprint, as well as increasing the number of providers,” said Dr. Wei.
