OMNI Surgery Center to formally open Jan. 28

UTICA, N.Y. — OMNI Surgery Center, an outpatient surgical center that specializes in interventional pain management, will formally open in South Utica on Jan. 28.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce will begin at 10 a.m. at the $6 million facility at 498 French Road.

The new surgery center will perform minimally-invasive procedures specializing in alleviating pain like chronic lower back pain and migraines, according to an email announcement from the Greater Utica Chamber.

Surgery center patients are discharged the same day that they are treated. OMNI has advanced technology in surgery, imaging, and electronic medical records, according to its website. “Everything here is cutting edge,” John Paoni, the center’s administrator, says in an interview. “The same procedures that top medical facilities are doing, we are applying that in our facility.”

OMNI Surgery Center first opened to patients on Dec. 8 and has already seen 100 patients, Paoni says. OMNI has 14 employees and plans to fill six more nursing, maintenance, and office staff positions. The number of employees will increase as OMNI grows, Paoni adds.

The Utica area has no other health-care facilities that treat interventional pain like OMNI does, Paoni contends. The surgery center is still awaiting its Medicare certification. “Although we don’t know when the inspectors will come, I think we’re ready,” Paoni says.

Hayner Hoyt Construction Company, based in Syracuse, built the facility. The center’s construction was funded through a $6 million private investment, Paoni says.

The OMNI Surgery Center is located at a site that was formerly home to the Leather Stocking Sportsplex, but had been vacant for nearly 10 years, according to a news release from the Utica Mayor’s Office.

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