What Doctors Wish You Knew:
Choosing a Health Care Facility

Surgery Center

University Hospital

Community Hospital

Treatments
Offered

• Basic outpatient procedures
• Market-based health care options

• Health care and surgery options for complicated health conditions and medical emergencies

• Basic inpatient and outpatient procedures

Quality of
Care/Patient
Experience

• Patients receive more one-on-one time with physician
• Comfortable amenities and convenient location
• Most elective procedures can be done here and they offer timely and accommodating services

• Feature cutting-edge health care technologies and state-of-the-art equipment
• Staffed with high-profile physicians and medical experts, as well as medical residents
• Optimal facility for very sick patients, who benefit from access to cutting-edge technology and staff expertise

• Patients receive more one-on-one time with physician
• Generally accommodating to patient needs
• Smaller than university hospitals, typically allowing for faster medical treatment

Cost

• Typically willing to negotiate on price

• Due to high quality of care plus high volume of patients, prices may not be negotiable

• Typically willing to negotiate on price