QMG Surgery Center Granted Licensure from the Illinois Department of Public Health

The Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG) Surgery Cen­ter was recent­ly grant­ed licen­sure from the Illi­nois Depart­ment of Pub­lic Health (IDPH). The sur­vey and licen­sure from IDPH ensure patient safe­ty and is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in the jour­ney of open­ing the facil­i­ty to patient care.

The IDPH sur­vey is a two-step process. Those steps include the com­ple­tion of a life safe­ty sur­vey of the build­ing to ver­i­fy that all required build­ing and safe­ty codes are met, as well as a clin­i­cal sur­vey to ver­i­fy process­es put in place by QMG are opti­mal to deliv­er qual­i­ty patient care.

“This accom­plish­ment is mon­u­men­tal for each one of us in vary­ing capac­i­ties,” said QMG Surgery Cen­ter Direc­tor Sarah Nolin­win­kler. ​“This not only pro­vides our license to oper­ate as a free-stand­ing Ambu­la­to­ry Surgery Cen­ter in Illi­nois, but it also is a direct reflec­tion of the count­less hours spent by all who have been a part of this jour­ney since its con­cep­tion to present.”

The IDPH license allows QMG to seek approval from the Accred­i­ta­tion Asso­ci­a­tion for Ambu­la­to­ry Health Care (AAAHC). Once accred­i­ta­tion is received, the QMG med­ical team will begin sched­ul­ing and per­form­ing sur­gi­cal care to patients.

The QMG Surgery Cen­ter will focus on pro­vid­ing same-day surg­eries and pro­ce­dures. The facil­i­ty will fea­ture five (5) oper­a­tion rooms (includ­ing a hybrid room to per­form car­diac catheter­i­za­tions), three (3) pro­ce­dure rooms, fif­teen (15) recov­ery rooms, nine (9) GI pre/­post-oper­a­tive rooms, and ten (10) pre-oper­a­tive rooms offer­ing the lat­est in med­ical tech­nol­o­gy, patient ameni­ties, and con­ve­nient, low­er-cost out­pa­tient care.

QMG Chief Clin­i­cal Offi­cer Shau­na Har­ri­son said the QMG Surgery Cen­ter will pro­vide the com­mu­ni­ty with afford­able, high-qual­i­ty health­care to area patients.

“The new QMG Surgery Cen­ter rep­re­sents our com­mit­ment to pro­vide the high­est lev­el of sur­gi­cal care to patients,” Har­ri­son said. ​“With the addi­tion of the QMG Surgery Cen­ter, we look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing to be among the most inno­v­a­tive health­care options for advanced med­ical care in the region.”

The QMG Surgery Cen­ter joins the QMG Can­cer Insti­tute at the Quin­cy Town Cen­ter at 3301 Broad­way in Quincy.

To learn more, vis­it quin​cymed​group​.com/​s​u​rgery.