Pavilion Surgery Center | UC Davis Health

Initial Contact

About 1-2 weeks before your procedure date, you will be contacted by a registered nurse or anesthesia resident. They will discuss your medical history, current medications, and any previous experiences that you’ve had with anesthesia.

Day-Before Call

You will receive a phone call from a Same Day Surgery Center nurse two business days before your surgery. The nurse will review your pre-surgery instructions such as arrival time, when to stop eating and drinking, and other details specific to your surgery.

When you arrive at the medical center, please go to Admissions, located on the first floor of the hospital's pavilion wing, where you will show your identification and insurance card. You will be greeted by our staff and will fill out paperwork upon arrival. You will pay your co-pay at this time.

• After check-in, you will proceed to the surgery reception area located in the surgery waiting room, on the third floor of the hospital's pavilion wing area. 
• Staff will collect visitor contact info and provide details about parking and pre-op and post-op visiting
• We can also provide information about local lodging, parking, nearby restaurants, and hospital resources like chaplain services.
• When it is time to start preparing you for surgery, a registered nurse or another staff member will find you in the waiting room and escort you to a pre-op room.  
• Two of your family members or loved ones who are attending to support you can remain with you in pre-op until you go to the operating room. At that time they will be escorted to the waiting room. 

Waiting Room and Visitor Policy

• The surgery waiting room is the location your family members or loved ones may wait for you while you are undergoing surgery. Waiting room staff will be available for any questions your family or loved ones may have during your surgery.
• The electronic patient status board will keep your loved ones updated with your surgery status. The board will allow them to track your progress through pre-op, surgery, and recovery.
• We ask that your family members or loved ones remain available by phone while you are in surgery. If they are leaving the surgery waiting area, we ask that they check in with the staff member as they leave and when they return. 
• Children cannot be left unattended in the waiting room.
• For information about cafeteria hours, parking, the gift shop and other related topics, please visit the medical center’s Visiting pages.

• After your surgery, you will be taken to the post-op/recovery room. There, nurses and physicians will monitor you to ensure that you are comfortable and that your recovery is continuing as it should.
• If you are going home on the day of surgery, you will remain in the post-op/recovery room until you have recovered from the anesthesia and discharged to go home.  
• If you are being admitted to the hospital after surgery, you will remain in the post-op/recovery room until you have recovered from the anesthesia. You will be transferred to your hospital room when it becomes available.  
• Once a patient arrives in the recovery room, it usually takes at least one hour before they are ready for visitors. Your loved ones will know when you arrive in the recovery room by looking at the electronic status board in the waiting room.
• To promote healing and recovery, only two visitors for 10 minutes per hour are allowed to visit during the recovery phase. For safety, all visitors must be escorted in and out of the recovery area.
• We encourage all visitors to use alcohol foam hand cleaner or wash hands before visiting patients.
• Please note, to provide for all patients’ privacy and safety, there may be times when we limit visitation in the post-op/recovery areas.
• No flowers or latex balloons may be brought into the recovery room.

• Before being discharged from the recovery area, you will be examined by an anesthesiologist.
• You and your loved ones will be provided with all the information you need for a continued, safe recuperation at home. For example, discharge instructions and contact phone numbers for both daytime and overnight use.