Columbia Eye Surgery Center Again Named Best Ophthalmic Ambulatory Surgery Center

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U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has again ranked Columbia Eye Surgery Center a Best Ambulatory Surgery Center for 2025 in the second annual edition of the recognition. Columbia Eye Surgery Center was one of only six ophthalmic ambulatory surgery centers recognized in South Carolina and the only in the Midlands region. Columbia Eye Surgery Center was also named Best Ambulatory Surgery Center in 2024.

Ambulatory surgery centers were evaluated based on objective, risk-adjusted measures of their patients’ outcomes, including how successfully they avoided complications, ER visits, unplanned hospitalizations and other undesirable outcomes. To ensure fair comparisons among ambulatory surgery centers, the analysis accounted for each patient’s pre-existing conditions and other risk factors.

Columbia Eye Surgery Center earns an overall high performing rating. The Center ranks very high both nationally and statewide for number of procedures performed. More experience in performing procedures or treating conditions correlates to positive patient outcomes.

The Center ranks low in instances of complications compared to similar surgical centers. This low indication indicates that on average, procedures at this surgical center go smoothly. The Center also ranks lower than average in Instances of post-procedure ER visits and average or lower than expected in the frequency of poor patient outcomes.

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