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Cataract Surgery

Service/Procedure Summary

Cataract surgery is the removal of a clouded lens (or cataract) from the eye to improve vision. The wait time shown is for patients who had their first cataract surgery.

Consult

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

371 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

393 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	282 days	196 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	228 days	314 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	413 days	182 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	429 days	167 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	322 days	281 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	428 days	211 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	270 days	435 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	337 days	496 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	---	---
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

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Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	192 days	24 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	220 days	37 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	197 days	92 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	179 days	168 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	160 days	219 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	160 days	243 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	280 days	243 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	223 days	322 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	---	---
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Hiron Kettledas	Glace Bay	52 days	31 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	56 days	69 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	53 days	83 days
Stanley George	Halifax	162 days	213 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	243 days	138 days
Paul Freund	Halifax	219 days	167 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	183 days	220 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	265 days	151 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	256 days	174 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	120 days	352 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	278 days	195 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	312 days	161 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	334 days	140 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	219 days	261 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	188 days	307 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	168 days	330 days
Daniel Belliveau	Sydney	344 days	161 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	134 days	373 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	132 days	379 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	330 days	196 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	394 days	157 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	423 days	143 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	297 days	271 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	371 days	216 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	267 days	330 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	304 days	310 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	234 days	391 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	365 days	265 days
David Comstock	Middleton	233 days	398 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	162 days	541 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	309 days	483 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	972 days	431 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	1395 days	260 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	105 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	---	350 days

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Hiron Kettledas	Glace Bay	16 days	24 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	27 days	29 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	30 days	28 days
Paul Freund	Halifax	49 days	40 days
Stanley George	Halifax	56 days	56 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	55 days	68 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	99 days	28 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	94 days	66 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	64 days	98 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	147 days	21 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	29 days	144 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	122 days	62 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	154 days	34 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	120 days	83 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	169 days	46 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	172 days	57 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	121 days	111 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	69 days	172 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	110 days	132 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	183 days	70 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	71 days	192 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	83 days	197 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	32 days	251 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	67 days	225 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	182 days	125 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	104 days	219 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	123 days	261 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	287 days	99 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	213 days	175 days
Daniel Belliveau	Sydney	262 days	127 days
David Comstock	Middleton	132 days	274 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	55 days	438 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	208 days	291 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	19 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	---	204 days

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