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Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery

Service/Procedure Summary

This procedure inserts a special camera called a laparoscope into the stomach to examine or repair it. Surgery on the GI tract, the path that food follows through the body.

Consult

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

174 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

195 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	66 days	63 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	61 days	92 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	133 days	58 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	90 days	113 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	191 days	58 days
Kentville	Valley Regional Hospital	158 days	98 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	61 days	206 days
Windsor	Hants Community Hospital	218 days	69 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	128 days	204 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	271 days	79 days
Dartmouth	Dartmouth General Hospital	259 days	188 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	168 days	370 days
Inverness	Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital	---	---

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	17 days	15 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	22 days	19 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	13 days	32 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	22 days	24 days
Kentville	Valley Regional Hospital	30 days	34 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	34 days	44 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	28 days	52 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	40 days	59 days
Dartmouth	Dartmouth General Hospital	48 days	52 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	74 days	29 days
Windsor	Hants Community Hospital	89 days	34 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	30 days	102 days
Inverness	Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital	---	---

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Irma Joan Proctor	Bridgewater	33 days	55 days
Oleg Lefel	Yarmouth	58 days	32 days
Blair MacDonald	Yarmouth	56 days	51 days
Edward Joy	Bridgewater	52 days	58 days
Kevin Johnson	Bridgewater	57 days	73 days
Hani Redwan	Sydney	90 days	41 days
Lucy K Helyer	Halifax	49 days	82 days
Philip Michael Smith	Truro	73 days	90 days
Todd Stoddart	Bridgewater	142 days	30 days
Kieron McGibney	Truro	53 days	142 days
Christopher Murphy	Yarmouth	66 days	149 days
Ryan Patrick Kelly	Kentville	126 days	100 days
Geoffrey A Porter	Halifax	44 days	188 days
F Donald Clark	Kentville	134 days	105 days
C Marius Hoogerboord	Halifax	187 days	86 days
Jonathan Boyde Enright	Dartmouth	147 days	128 days
Warren W Shih	Dartmouth	168 days	142 days
Clay K Butler	Sydney	228 days	98 days
Colleen M O'Sullivan	New Glasgow	128 days	204 days
Leszek J Wasilewski	Dartmouth	200 days	146 days
Paul M Johnson	Halifax	195 days	202 days
Roderick McKenney	Truro	365 days	91 days
Jane Watson-Jessome	Dartmouth	182 days	286 days
S. Mark Taylor	Halifax	130 days	370 days
David MacFarlane	Kentville	449 days	72 days
Chris Kenyon	Halifax	72 days	462 days
John L Murdoch	Dartmouth	435 days	277 days
Abdulrahim S Alawashez	Antigonish	---	---
Alex D Mitchell	Dartmouth	---	---
Alicia Lamey	North Sydney	---	---
Alison Archibald	North Sydney	---	45 days
Benjamin Heisler	Kentville	---	---
Carman Anthony Giacomantonio	Halifax	---	185 days
Chakshu Sharma	New Glasgow	---	46 days
Christopher Blackmore	Halifax	---	---
Dafydd Alexander Davies	Halifax	---	78 days
Daniel Gerard French	Halifax	---	---
Dennis R Klassen	Halifax	---	136 days
Eric Hyun	New Glasgow	---	---
James C Ellsmere	Halifax	---	---
Jessica Louise Mills	Halifax	---	---
Katerina Neumann	Halifax	---	237 days
Lukas Wasserman	Antigonish	---	206 days
Madelaine M Plourde	Halifax	---	---
Mark J Walsh	Halifax	---	---
Martin Dzierzanowski	Truro	---	43 days
Nabil Nader	Amherst	---	29 days
Najeeb Ahmed Abdul Kadir	Amherst	---	---
Rodrigo Luiz Romao	Halifax	---	84 days
Samuel Minor	Halifax	---	123 days
Stephanie Lapierre	Sydney	---	---
Timothy D Wallace	Amherst	---	---

50%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Oleg Lefel	Yarmouth	16 days	11 days
Blair MacDonald	Yarmouth	11 days	28 days
Christopher Murphy	Yarmouth	20 days	20 days
Todd Stoddart	Bridgewater	24 days	16 days
Clay K Butler	Sydney	19 days	22 days
Irma Joan Proctor	Bridgewater	14 days	30 days
Lucy K Helyer	Halifax	17 days	28 days
David MacFarlane	Kentville	23 days	23 days
Hani Redwan	Sydney	39 days	14 days
F Donald Clark	Kentville	12 days	43 days
Geoffrey A Porter	Halifax	16 days	39 days
Edward Joy	Bridgewater	22 days	37 days
Kevin Johnson	Bridgewater	26 days	33 days
Philip Michael Smith	Truro	18 days	49 days
Colleen M O'Sullivan	New Glasgow	34 days	34 days
Jane Watson-Jessome	Dartmouth	46 days	31 days
Roderick McKenney	Truro	38 days	45 days
Kieron McGibney	Truro	37 days	47 days
Warren W Shih	Dartmouth	33 days	51 days
John L Murdoch	Dartmouth	52 days	50 days
Jonathan Boyde Enright	Dartmouth	31 days	78 days
Paul M Johnson	Halifax	76 days	42 days
Ryan Patrick Kelly	Kentville	73 days	66 days
C Marius Hoogerboord	Halifax	129 days	37 days
Chris Kenyon	Halifax	36 days	142 days
Leszek J Wasilewski	Dartmouth	163 days	71 days
S. Mark Taylor	Halifax	73 days	203 days
Abdulrahim S Alawashez	Antigonish	---	---
Alex D Mitchell	Dartmouth	---	---
Alicia Lamey	North Sydney	---	---
Alison Archibald	North Sydney	---	27 days
Benjamin Heisler	Kentville	---	---
Carman Anthony Giacomantonio	Halifax	---	71 days
Chakshu Sharma	New Glasgow	---	30 days
Christopher Blackmore	Halifax	---	---
Dafydd Alexander Davies	Halifax	---	58 days
Daniel Gerard French	Halifax	---	---
Dennis R Klassen	Halifax	---	41 days
Eric Hyun	New Glasgow	---	---
James C Ellsmere	Halifax	---	---
Jessica Louise Mills	Halifax	---	---
Katerina Neumann	Halifax	---	72 days
Lukas Wasserman	Antigonish	---	102 days
Madelaine M Plourde	Halifax	---	---
Mark J Walsh	Halifax	---	---
Martin Dzierzanowski	Truro	---	29 days
Nabil Nader	Amherst	---	26 days
Najeeb Ahmed Abdul Kadir	Amherst	---	---
Rodrigo Luiz Romao	Halifax	---	15 days
Samuel Minor	Halifax	---	107 days
Stephanie Lapierre	Sydney	---	---
Timothy D Wallace	Amherst	---	---

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Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery

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