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Phone: 860-859-9948
Welcome to River Valley ASC. We are a free-standing, ADA compliant, physician-owned multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center located in Norwich, CT. The team is dedicated to making your surgical experience as personal and comfortable as possible.
We want the day of your surgery to be a seamless experience, where you can simply walk in, check-in at our front desk and be shown to your room rather than fill out pages of paperwork.
Registration is designed to be quick and easy and completing the form should take you 20-25 minutes. Please have your insurance information handy.
When you arrive at our center, we ask that you check-in at the front desk to verify personal, companion and insurance information.
Our Day of Surgery Guide will give you all the details on how you can prepare for your surgery.
Offering easy to understand recovery instructions for you and your family is our priority. Read through our guide for more information.
Be sure to arrange a ride option for arriving home safely after your procedure. Read through our After-Surgery Guide for more important information.
River Valley ASC is proud to make Newsweek’s 2024 list of Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
River Valley ASC is proud to be one of the SCA Health centers recognized on Newsweek’s 2023 list of Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
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River Valley ASC is accredited through Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC). The accreditation certificate displayed in our waiting area symbolizes that we are committed to providing high quality health care and demonstrates compliance to AAAHC’s high standards.
We continue to serve patients and provide them with much needed, high quality, lower cost elective surgeries in a healthcare setting where we don’t treat COVID-19 patients. We focus on safety through expanded policies and protocols in accordance with proven national health and safety guidelines.
Your visit may take longer due to our expanded safety measures, some of which may change over time. For further questions please contact us at 860-859-9948.
River Valley ASC has earned the Go Clear Award™ for its achievement in eliminating hazardous smoke from its surgical procedures. The Go Clear Award is presented by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) to recognize health care facilities that have committed to providing increased surgical patient and health care worker safety by implementing practices that eliminate smoke caused by the use of lasers and electrosurgery devices during surgery. (Facility) earned its award by undergoing comprehensive surgical smoke education and testing and for providing the medical devices and resources necessary to evacuate surgical smoke during all smoke-generating procedures.
Alpharetta, GA – SPH Analytics announced that 119 healthcare provider organizations have earned its annual National APEX Quality Award. For the past ten years, SPH Analytics has awarded the National APEX Quality Award to recognize healthcare providers who demonstrate the highest level of excellence in patient satisfaction.
This national distinction recognizes outstanding healthcare providers who have demonstrated excellence in patient satisfaction and overall care during the previous calendar year. The latest winners include ambulatory surgery centers, catheterization laboratories, diagnostic imaging centers, endoscopy centers, and physician practices.