Surgical Services:  Inpatient surgery and outpatient surgery services are offered at SMC locations and PMC. Outpatient surgery services are also provided through the joint venture entities ASCS and SCP. Currently, surgical services at SMC consist of 15 state-of-the-art general operating rooms, one state-of-the-art hybrid endovascular vascular suite, two cystoscopy operating rooms, and one minor procedure operating room. The 15 operating rooms range in size from 594 to 816 square feet. Today, larger rooms are required to accommodate new technology used in surgery. SMC also offers a minimally invasive approach to surgery with the da Vinci® robotic surgical systems. SMC's robotic program is one of the most comprehensive in South Carolina, offering robotic gynecological (GYN), GYN oncologic, radical prostate, partial nephrectomy, thoracic, general and cardiac procedures. Over 8,700 robotic procedures have been performed since the program started in 2007. There are also three open-heart operating rooms in the Heart Center, contiguous to the main operating rooms and three GYN operating rooms. The pre-op area consists of 26 individual patient rooms, and the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) recovery room consists of 27 bays. PACU has two dedicated isolation rooms and two dedicated pediatric rooms. Over 18,300 surgeries were performed at SMC and PMC during fiscal year 2017.