Peninsula Hospital Center leads the field in Ambulatory Surgery.  Outpatient surgery, also referred to as ambulatory surgery, is surgery that does not require an overnight hospital stay. Patients may go home after being released following surgery and time spent in the recovery room.

Due to improved pain control, advanced medical techniques—including those that reduce recovery time—and cost-cutting considerations, more and more surgeries are being performed on an outpatient basis. Surgeries suited to a non-hospital setting generally are those with a low percentage of postoperative complications, which would require serious attention by a physician or nurse.