Welcome to ABJ Surgery Center, Inc.
The ABJ Surgery Center, Inc. is our private, state-of-the-art ambulatory surgical
facility focusing exclusively on specialty surgery services: surgeries of the hand and wrist and plastic surgeries. Our team
of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and surgical technicians work together
to provide our patients with a convenient, timely, and positive outpatient
surgical experience. As a patient at the ABJ Surgery Center, you will receive
the finest pre- and post-operative care, and will be treated by some of the
most skilled surgeons in the country.
The ABJ Surgery Center, Inc. is conveniently located adjacent to the California Hand and Wrist Associates office at 104 St. Matthews Avenue in San Mateo. It is certified by Medicare.
ABJ Surgery Center, Inc. has closed.
Dr Pertsch established his practice in July 1988. He started performing surgeries outside of the hospital December 17, 1992 sharing Dr Brandt’s office OR in the 50 S. San Mateo Drive building.
In June 1996, the 2104 square foot site at 104 St. Matthews Avenue was acquired. The OR was accredited and the first operation took place Wednesday July 30, 1997. There was a Northern San Mateo power outage 10 min after starting but back up power batteries worked flawlessly.
Success prompted plans to expand to a new 2 or 3 OR facility. The 5400 square foot 1875 Trousdale Drive was purchased 3/11/05 adjacent to Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame. However, adequate cases from other surgeons could not be assured to proceed with development.
The Trousdale site was sold 5/22/2007 to an investment group that also struggled and sold to Peninsula Hospital.
Thousands of surgeries took place at ABJ Surgery Center, Inc. at 104 St. Matthews Avenue.
However rising expenses, reimbursement challenges started taking a toll with ABJ financial losses starting 2019. Covid “shelter-in-place” prompted a shutdown 3/17/20 to 5/19/20 with ABJ falling further behind financially. It was the COVID induced nursing staff shortage combined with an anesthesiologist shortage that finally caused the one room one surgeon OR to be logistically and financially unsustainable.
The last surgery took place August 19, 2021.
The facility at 104 St Matthews is no longer AAAASF Accredited.