UC San Diego Health – East Campus Medical Center (formerly Alvarado Hospital) provides comprehensive hospital-based orthopedic care for patients throughout the College Area, La Mesa, El Cajon, and East County San Diego.
UC San Diego Health – East Campus Medical Center (formerly Alvarado Hospital) provides comprehensive hospital-based orthopedic care for patients throughout the College Area, La Mesa, El Cajon, and East County San Diego.
Synergy Orthopedic Specialists is an independent, physician-owned orthopedic medical group whose surgeons perform procedures at East Campus Medical Center while coordinating outpatient care through Synergy’s clinics, imaging centers, and therapy locations across San Diego.
For Synergy patients, evaluations, surgical planning, and follow-up care are coordinated through Synergy Orthopedic Specialists. In contrast, surgeries and inpatient hospital care take place at UC San Diego Health – East Campus Medical Center. Synergy works closely with UC San Diego Health nursing, anesthesia, hospitalist, and rehabilitation teams to provide seamless orthopedic care before, during, and after surgery.
Synergy Orthopedic Specialists collaborates with UC San Diego Health through participation in its clinically integrated network and select UCSD-aligned health plan arrangements. While Synergy remains an independent, physician-owned orthopedic group, this relationship allows many patients to receive orthopedic care from Synergy surgeons while using UC San Diego Health hospitals, such as East Campus Medical Center.
This coordinated approach helps patients receive connected care across clinics, hospitals, imaging, rehabilitation, and health plans while maintaining access to fellowship-trained orthopedic specialists.
Synergy orthopedic surgeons perform advanced hip and knee replacement procedures, revision joint replacement surgery, and joint preservation treatments in a full-service hospital setting designed to support complex orthopedic recovery needs.
Our sports medicine specialists provide treatment for athletic injuries and orthopedic conditions involving the shoulder, knee, elbow, hip, and ankle. Services include arthroscopic surgery, ligament reconstruction, rotator cuff repair, cartilage restoration, labral repair, and return-to-sport rehabilitation.
Synergy spine specialists provide hospital-based care for herniated discs, spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, and other neck and back conditions. Services may include minimally invasive procedures, decompression surgery, spinal fusion procedures, and inpatient spine surgery.
Our hand and upper extremity specialists treat conditions of the hand, wrist, forearm, elbow, and shoulder, including fractures, tendon injuries, arthritis, nerve compression, reconstruction procedures, and shoulder replacement surgery.
Synergy Foot and Ankle Specialists provides fracture repair, ligament reconstruction, tendon repair, deformity correction, sports injury treatment, and hospital-based procedures for complex foot and ankle conditions.
Synergy physicians coordinate with the East Campus emergency department to provide orthopedic trauma care and fracture surgery for acute injuries requiring hospital-based treatment and inpatient support.
Synergy Orthopedic Specialists is San Diego’s largest private orthopedic group, providing patients with access to fellowship-trained subspecialists in sports medicine, joint replacement, spine, hand and upper extremity, and foot and ankle surgery through a coordinated orthopedic team.
Synergy participates in the UC San Diego Health Clinically Integrated Network (CIN). Here, patients may benefit from improved care coordination between Synergy clinics, UC San Diego Health physicians, and East Campus Medical Center. This collaboration helps streamline communication, reduce duplicate testing, and improve continuity of care across hospital and outpatient settings.
Your Synergy surgeon’s office coordinates surgery scheduling, pre-operative instructions, insurance coordination, and follow-up care. Patients should contact Synergy Orthopedic Specialists directly with questions regarding surgery preparation, medications, or paperwork.
On the day of surgery, patients typically check in at the main entrance of UC San Diego Health – East Campus Medical Center and follow hospital signage to the surgical check-in area.
East Campus Medical Center offers on-site parking garages and patient parking areas adjacent to the hospital, with convenient drop-off zones near the main entrance.
Synergy Orthopedic Specialists bills separately for surgeon professional services, while UC San Diego Health bills separately for hospital facility charges, anesthesia, imaging, and hospital-based services.
Most post-operative appointments, wound checks, physical therapy coordination, and long-term orthopedic management occur at Synergy Orthopedic Specialists clinic locations unless your surgeon directs you back to the hospital.
Yes. East Campus Medical Center at UC San Diego Health was formerly known as Alvarado Hospital.
Patients may use the on-site parking garage and patient parking lots located adjacent to the hospital.
For questions regarding surgery scheduling, medications, pre-operative instructions, or follow-up care, contact Synergy Orthopedic Specialists directly.
Yes. Synergy Orthopedic Specialists and UC San Diego Health bill separately for physician and hospital-based services.
Most routine follow-up appointments are completed at Synergy Orthopedic Specialists’ clinic locations rather than at the hospital.
For medical emergencies such as chest pain, trouble breathing, uncontrolled pain, or severe symptoms, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department immediately.