Carlsbad Surgery Center is a Medicare-certified ambulatory surgical center on Paseo Del Norte near the Carlsbad Premium Outlets, operating within the Sutter Health network since its incorporation in 1981. The center's four operating rooms handle outpatient cases referred by groups such as Orthopaedic Specialists of North County, covering orthopedics, ortho-spine, general surgery, pain management, ENT, plastics, and podiatry under one roof. All surgeons on staff hold board certification or board eligibility in their respective specialties, and cases are limited to elective procedures requiring no more than a 23-hour stay. Post-operative rehabilitation for joint and spine patients often continues at nearby Bressi Ranch facilities such as Longevity Physical Therapy, which sits less than two miles east on Palomar Airport Road. The facility's highest-acuity procedures include multi-level lumbar decompression, arthroscopic rotator-cuff repair with suture-anchor fixation, and total joint arthroplasty performed in a laminar-airflow surgical environment.