High Pointe Surgery Center

I had some minor back surgery here and can’t say enough positive things. The staff is incredibly friendly and helpful and I always felt extremely well taken care of. No one likes surgery but I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend High Pointe to anyone.
My sister has had 2 knee surgeries there and her experience was extremely good as well.

I brought my husband here for arthroscopic knee surgery. I was a little skeptical about a day surgery center – these places sometimes make the news in a bad way – but everything was clean and well-​organized. The surgeon, Dr. Panek of St. Croix Orthopedics, took plenty of time before the surgery to explain to both of us what he would be doing. After the surgery, he gave a thorough report on how it went and what he encountered. Post-​surgery care was attentive and friendly. Overall the place is run very professionally, which is as it should be. The only difference between this and the hospital is that you don’t stay overnight here.

This is the third in my series related to my knee surgery to replace a torn ACL. See
for the second review.
High Pointe is where I had my surgery. If a surgery center receives anything but a five star rating, you should be scared. Very scared. Fortunately, I didn’t have to be.
Being clean and well kept for a medical facility goes without saying. But the staff was very friendly and put you at ease. I wasn’t very scared of going into surgery, but I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t at all apprehensive. It is surgery after all, even if it is miles away from any vital organs. Any number of things can go wrong. And the staff there was all smiley and joked around with me to help disperse some of that apprehensiveness. (One of the receptionists was a Vikings fan and made a comment about my Vikings sweatshirt. We had some fun poking fun at our next door rivals.)
You had a private stall to get ready and whoever was there with you was allowed to see you just before they took you away. I remember being sprawled out on a surgery table with arms out much like Neo was in the last Matrix movie. It was kind of surreal and very Holy-​like.
I don’t remember much of the recovery area as I only woke up briefly to mumble that I felt nauseous. I didn’t feel like I said it very loud, but I heard some nurses scrambling to page a doc to see if they could give me some medicine for it, so either I said it louder than I thought, or the nurses were very attentive.
Surgery didn’t turn out to be that big of a deal to me other than not reacting well to general anesthetic. With that said, I don’t care to repeat it anytime soon. But if I end up back at High Pointe, I’ll certainly feel better that I’m in good hands.