About Our Surgical Center
CDMS Surgery Center is an accredited outpatient facility in Pasadena, built so dermatologic surgery, plastic surgery, and pain management can all happen from the same operating suite — under local or minimal sedation, with same-day recovery at home.
Advanced care in a comfortable setting
Every procedure is performed in an accredited outpatient operating suite, equipped for same-day surgery under local or minimal sedation. Because you're not admitted overnight, you recover at home the same evening rather than in a hospital bed.
Our on-site pathology lab is what makes single-visit Mohs surgery possible — tissue margins are read in-house, typically in 45–60 minutes, instead of being sent to an outside lab and waited on for days.
The facility, at a glance
Accredited outpatient center
Licensed for same-day surgical procedures under local or minimal sedation, so you go home the same day rather than staying overnight.
On-site pathology
Tissue margins for Mohs procedures are processed and read in-house, which is what makes single-visit treatment possible.
Three specialties, one building
Dermatologic (Mohs) surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and pain management, coordinated from the same operating suite.
How we started
CDMS was founded as a dedicated Mohs surgery practice, with an on-site lab built so tissue margins could be read the same day a tumor was removed, instead of sent out and waited on. As more patients needed reconstruction after their Mohs procedure, we added plastic surgery under the same roof. Pain management followed for the same reason: fewer buildings, fewer intake forms, fewer weeks spent waiting between specialists.
Today, CDMS Surgery Center is an accredited outpatient facility offering all three specialties from a single location in Pasadena.
Our providers
Our surgeons and pain specialists are fellowship-trained and board-certified in their respective fields.
Questions about your care?
Reach out and we'll point you to the right specialist.