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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 ?

163 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

188 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	66 days	71 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	68 days	92 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	127 days	58 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	90 days	106 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	77 days	160 days
Kentville	Valley Regional Hospital	158 days	83 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	191 days	58 days
Windsor	Hants Community Hospital	180 days	69 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	61 days	206 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	271 days	79 days
Dartmouth	Dartmouth General Hospital	286 days	188 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	175 days	352 days
Inverness	Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital	---	---

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	12 days	18 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	16 days	19 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	9 days	32 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	20 days	24 days
Kentville	Valley Regional Hospital	32 days	35 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	28 days	44 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	33 days	43 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	63 days	28 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	37 days	60 days
Dartmouth	Dartmouth General Hospital	45 days	56 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	30 days	75 days
Windsor	Hants Community Hospital	89 days	48 days
Inverness	Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital	---	---

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Martin Dzierzanowski	Truro	37 days	43 days
Irma Joan Proctor	Bridgewater	19 days	64 days
Blair MacDonald	Yarmouth	56 days	51 days
Lucy K Helyer	Halifax	37 days	82 days
Oleg Lefel	Yarmouth	58 days	63 days
Edward Joy	Bridgewater	52 days	72 days
Hani Redwan	Sydney	90 days	41 days
Geoffrey A Porter	Halifax	44 days	110 days
Kevin Johnson	Bridgewater	84 days	70 days
Philip Michael Smith	Truro	73 days	90 days
Christopher Murphy	Yarmouth	66 days	109 days
Roderick McKenney	Truro	91 days	85 days
Todd Stoddart	Bridgewater	142 days	38 days
F Donald Clark	Kentville	134 days	83 days
Ryan Patrick Kelly	Kentville	126 days	100 days
Colleen M O'Sullivan	New Glasgow	77 days	160 days
Clay K Butler	Sydney	191 days	48 days
Kieron McGibney	Truro	122 days	142 days
David MacFarlane	Kentville	252 days	23 days
C Marius Hoogerboord	Halifax	187 days	89 days
Jonathan Boyde Enright	Dartmouth	147 days	147 days
Paul M Johnson	Halifax	180 days	132 days
Leszek J Wasilewski	Dartmouth	180 days	146 days
Jane Watson-Jessome	Dartmouth	182 days	155 days
Warren W Shih	Dartmouth	286 days	162 days
S. Mark Taylor	Halifax	130 days	370 days
Chris Kenyon	Halifax	72 days	433 days
John L Murdoch	Dartmouth	435 days	277 days
Alex D Mitchell	Dartmouth	---	---
Alicia Lamey	North Sydney	---	---
Alison Archibald	North Sydney	---	58 days
Benjamin Heisler	Kentville	---	49 days
Carman Anthony Giacomantonio	Halifax	---	185 days
Chakshu Sharma	New Glasgow	---	46 days
Dafydd Alexander Davies	Halifax	---	65 days
Daniel Gerard French	Halifax	---	---
Dennis R Klassen	Halifax	---	136 days
James C Ellsmere	Halifax	---	---
Jessica Louise Mills	Halifax	---	94 days
John Booth	Truro	---	---
Katerina Neumann	Halifax	---	214 days
Lukas Wasserman	Antigonish	---	206 days
Mark J Walsh	Halifax	---	---
Nabil Nader	Amherst	---	---
Najeeb Ahmed Abdul Kadir	Amherst	---	---
Rodney W McGory	Sydney	---	---
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	13 days
Blair MacDonald	Yarmouth	11 days	23 days
Christopher Murphy	Yarmouth	14 days	20 days
Irma Joan Proctor	Bridgewater	8 days	27 days
Martin Dzierzanowski	Truro	14 days	22 days
Todd Stoddart	Bridgewater	20 days	16 days
Clay K Butler	Sydney	16 days	21 days
Colleen M O'Sullivan	New Glasgow	8 days	33 days
Lucy K Helyer	Halifax	10 days	32 days
Hani Redwan	Sydney	29 days	15 days
Geoffrey A Porter	Halifax	18 days	34 days
David MacFarlane	Kentville	32 days	23 days
F Donald Clark	Kentville	12 days	43 days
Edward Joy	Bridgewater	21 days	37 days
Kevin Johnson	Bridgewater	39 days	32 days
Philip Michael Smith	Truro	21 days	52 days
Roderick McKenney	Truro	37 days	38 days
Kieron McGibney	Truro	37 days	44 days
Warren W Shih	Dartmouth	30 days	62 days
John L Murdoch	Dartmouth	52 days	42 days
Jane Watson-Jessome	Dartmouth	58 days	41 days
Jonathan Boyde Enright	Dartmouth	35 days	78 days
Paul M Johnson	Halifax	76 days	43 days
Ryan Patrick Kelly	Kentville	59 days	66 days
Chris Kenyon	Halifax	30 days	111 days
C Marius Hoogerboord	Halifax	109 days	37 days
Leszek J Wasilewski	Dartmouth	116 days	62 days
S. Mark Taylor	Halifax	73 days	216 days
Alex D Mitchell	Dartmouth	---	---
Alicia Lamey	North Sydney	---	---
Alison Archibald	North Sydney	---	40 days
Benjamin Heisler	Kentville	---	30 days
Carman Anthony Giacomantonio	Halifax	---	54 days
Chakshu Sharma	New Glasgow	---	30 days
Dafydd Alexander Davies	Halifax	---	47 days
Daniel Gerard French	Halifax	---	---
Dennis R Klassen	Halifax	---	41 days
James C Ellsmere	Halifax	---	---
Jessica Louise Mills	Halifax	---	61 days
John Booth	Truro	---	---
Katerina Neumann	Halifax	---	68 days
Lukas Wasserman	Antigonish	---	110 days
Mark J Walsh	Halifax	---	---
Nabil Nader	Amherst	---	---
Najeeb Ahmed Abdul Kadir	Amherst	---	---
Rodney W McGory	Sydney	---	---
Rodrigo Luiz Romao	Halifax	---	40 days
Samuel Minor	Halifax	---	106 days
Stephanie Lapierre	Sydney	---	---
Timothy D Wallace	Amherst	---	---

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