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Northwestern Medicine Surgery Center River North

Overview

Northwestern Medicine Surgery Center River North provides outpatient orthopaedic and ophthalmology services.

What to Expect

Before your surgery, our staff will:

  • Complete your registration.
  • Check your insurance coverage.
  • Help make sure your insurance considers your procedure to be medically needed. This can affect what they cover.

Please bring your valid health insurance card(s)/information.

Staff will give you instructions to follow before your procedure. Please follow their directions. If you do not, we may need to reschedule your surgery.

You will recover in a post-operative room so we can monitor your health and comfort.

Your care team will give you instructions to help you recover and return to everyday activities. Please follow their instructions. Ask your care team if you have any questions.

Parking and Transportation

We offer discounted parking for patients and visitors. To get the discount, bring your parking ticket to the Registration Desk. You must do this every time you park to get the discount.

If you do not bring your parking ticket to the Registration Desk, you must pay the regular garage rates.

Parking Rates

Up to 3 hours: $15

12 hours: $17 with validation

24 hours: $25 with validation

Parking Lots and Entrances

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Why Choose Us

Northwestern Medicine is proud to have five hospitals ranked among “America’s Best” including Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the No. 1 hospital in Illinois for 13 straight years (tie), by U.S. News & World Report, 2024 – 2025. Our physicians, care teams and scientists come together every day with a shared commitment to provide excellent patient care.

We seek to improve the health of the patients and communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services with leading medicine and compassion. Because what makes us better, makes you better. ®