The General Surgery Center
    …a Riverview Health Institute Solution

You’ve just eaten when you’re hit by a terrible pain in your abdomen. You may even be running a fever. And this isn’t the first time you’ve suffered like this. In fact, as you’ve gotten older and gained some weight, it has gotten worse. It’s time to find out what’s wrong.

Your choice for diagnosis and treatment is The General Surgery Center. General Surgery encompasses a broad range of procedures involving the alimentary tract; the abdomen; breast, skin and soft tissue; the endocrine system; head and neck surgery; vascular surgery and more. The discipline requires extensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, metabolism, immunology, nutrition, pathology, wound healing, shock and resuscitation, intensive care and neoplasia. Moreover, general surgeons have experience with endoscopic techniques used to visualize areas inside the body, including colonoscopy, proctosygmoidoscopy, laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy, and esophagogatroduodenoscopy.

General surgeons at Riverview are board certified, have completed a five-year General Surgery residency and may then have specialized in a particular area of General Surgery. Our surgeons are proficient in both laparoscopic surgical techniques, which uses a fiber optic scope to see the problem and miniature surgical tools to correct it. This approach requires only small incisions to introduce laparoscope and is often called minimally invasive surgery. Of course, our surgeons also perform “open” surgery, using traditional incisions to expose the area requiring repair, when the situation dictates that approach.

Surgeons of The General Surgery Center strive to perform the least invasive form of surgery that will produce the desired outcome, resulting in shorter stays — many patients go home the same day — and faster healing times, with fewer complications.

The most common procedures performed at The General Surgery Center are: hernia repair, bowl obstructions, cholecystectomy, appendectomies, thoracic (chest) surgery, repair of skin lesions, mastectomies, and excision of tumors, cysts, as well as debriding wounds and treating burns. As the needs of our patients grow, we will add procedures to provide complete care for our patients.