Here are five things to know about Burnsville, Minn.-based Ridges Surgery Center.
1. Ridges Surgery Center is equipped with its own outpatient spine surgery center.
2. Patients satisfaction at the surgery center is at 94 percent, beating the ASC national average, 90 percent.
3. Common outpatient spine procedures include minimally invasive discectomy, stabilization and fusion, laminotomy and foraminotomy.
4. Stefano Sinicropi, MD, is a spine surgeon at the center. He has performed more than 5,000 minimally invasive procedures to correct spinal conditions, to date.
5. Dr. Sinicropi specializes in disc herniation, bulging disc, cervical and lumbar stenosis and sciatica.