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Hernia Repair (Adult)

Service/Procedure Summary

Adult patients are 16 years old or older. This surgery repairs a hernia in any area other than the location of an incision from a previous surgery. A hernia occurs when a piece of an organ sticks through the wall that should normally contain it. See "Hernia Repair - Incisional" for the wait times for incisional hernia repair.

Consult

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

400 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

335 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	40 days	135 days
Windsor	Hants Community Hospital	295 days	181 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	90 days	364 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	272 days	498 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	363 days	161 days
Kentville	Valley Regional Hospital	243 days	322 days
Inverness	Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital	---	149 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	587 days	672 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	---	---
Dartmouth	Dartmouth General Hospital	396 days	305 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	118 days	141 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	53 days	286 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	90 days	299 days

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	15 days	39 days
Windsor	Hants Community Hospital	126 days	61 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	27 days	89 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	186 days	351 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	58 days	75 days
Kentville	Valley Regional Hospital	45 days	61 days
Inverness	Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital	---	58 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	379 days	104 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	---	---
Dartmouth	Dartmouth General Hospital	188 days	130 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	42 days	43 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	14 days	184 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	19 days	74 days

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Oleg Lefel	Yarmouth	43 days	111 days
Christopher Murphy	Yarmouth	69 days	203 days
Jenelle King	Yarmouth	29 days	112 days
Blair MacDonald	Yarmouth	63 days	70 days
Jane Watson-Jessome	Windsor	127 days	94 days
Kieron McGibney	Truro	222 days	258 days
John Booth	Truro	95 days	281 days
Najeeb Ahmed Abdul Kadir	Truro	53 days	351 days
Ahmed Jad	Truro	90 days	141 days
Martin Dzierzanowski	Truro	40 days	160 days
Daniel Kagedan	Sydney	---	---
Clay K Butler	Sydney	255 days	498 days
Rodney W McGory	Sydney	---	392 days
Stephanie Lapierre	Sydney	---	424 days
Alicia Lamey	Sydney	272 days	376 days
Heather Poushay	Sydney	169 days	105 days
Alison Archibald	Sydney	239 days	345 days
Chakshu Sharma	New Glasgow	244 days	291 days
Colleen M O'Sullivan	New Glasgow	519 days	359 days
Brian Nocon	New Glasgow	65 days	90 days
Benjamin Heisler	Kentville	82 days	118 days
Ryan Patrick Kelly	Kentville	756 days	338 days
David MacFarlane	Kentville	94 days	193 days
Paul Yaffe	Kentville	162 days	406 days
F Donald Clark	Kentville	77 days	94 days
Alexander Ednie	Halifax	---	---
C Marius Hoogerboord	Halifax	540 days	271 days
Boris Gala Lopez	Halifax	41 days	129 days
Carman Anthony Giacomantonio	Halifax	---	---
Richard Spence	Halifax	112 days	196 days
Scott Livingstone	Halifax	238 days	213 days
Stephanie Hiebert	Halifax	---	---
Samuel Minor	Halifax	686 days	563 days
Paul M Johnson	Halifax	---	---
Trevor J Topp	Halifax	---	325 days
Mark J Walsh	Halifax	43 days	---
Rex S Dunn	Glace Bay	---	---
Jonathan Boyde Enright	Dartmouth	433 days	206 days
John L Murdoch	Dartmouth	188 days	326 days
Riley Stewart	Dartmouth	367 days	184 days
Warren W Shih	Dartmouth	287 days	475 days
Leszek J Wasilewski	Dartmouth	584 days	130 days
Kevin Johnson	Bridgewater	49 days	196 days
Edward Joy	Bridgewater	108 days	182 days
Rhys Kavanagh	Bridgewater	86 days	161 days
Irma Joan Proctor	Bridgewater	106 days	176 days
Todd Stoddart	Bridgewater	302 days	183 days
Krista de Boer	Antigonish	284 days	251 days
Farisa Hossain	Antigonish	39 days	270 days
Lukas Wasserman	Antigonish	50 days	328 days
Andrea Marie Faryniuk	Amherst	147 days	176 days
Nabil Nader	Amherst	143 days	342 days
Colin McWilliams	Amherst	140 days	205 days

50%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Oleg Lefel	Yarmouth	10 days	37 days
Christopher Murphy	Yarmouth	20 days	31 days
Jenelle King	Yarmouth	14 days	32 days
Blair MacDonald	Yarmouth	34 days	26 days
Jane Watson-Jessome	Windsor	90 days	33 days
Kieron McGibney	Truro	125 days	150 days
John Booth	Truro	31 days	162 days
Najeeb Ahmed Abdul Kadir	Truro	29 days	105 days
Ahmed Jad	Truro	38 days	52 days
Martin Dzierzanowski	Truro	23 days	46 days
Daniel Kagedan	Sydney	---	---
Clay K Butler	Sydney	44 days	311 days
Rodney W McGory	Sydney	---	168 days
Stephanie Lapierre	Sydney	---	377 days
Alicia Lamey	Sydney	136 days	129 days
Heather Poushay	Sydney	85 days	45 days
Alison Archibald	Sydney	81 days	44 days
Chakshu Sharma	New Glasgow	79 days	108 days
Colleen M O'Sullivan	New Glasgow	334 days	146 days
Brian Nocon	New Glasgow	25 days	43 days
Benjamin Heisler	Kentville	31 days	39 days
Ryan Patrick Kelly	Kentville	151 days	212 days
David MacFarlane	Kentville	44 days	51 days
Paul Yaffe	Kentville	110 days	297 days
F Donald Clark	Kentville	32 days	45 days
Alexander Ednie	Halifax	---	---
C Marius Hoogerboord	Halifax	430 days	137 days
Boris Gala Lopez	Halifax	20 days	80 days
Carman Anthony Giacomantonio	Halifax	---	---
Richard Spence	Halifax	42 days	78 days
Scott Livingstone	Halifax	24 days	50 days
Stephanie Hiebert	Halifax	---	---
Samuel Minor	Halifax	471 days	98 days
Paul M Johnson	Halifax	---	---
Trevor J Topp	Halifax	---	125 days
Mark J Walsh	Halifax	23 days	---
Rex S Dunn	Glace Bay	---	---
Jonathan Boyde Enright	Dartmouth	180 days	73 days
John L Murdoch	Dartmouth	129 days	120 days
Riley Stewart	Dartmouth	136 days	58 days
Warren W Shih	Dartmouth	240 days	245 days
Leszek J Wasilewski	Dartmouth	251 days	80 days
Kevin Johnson	Bridgewater	28 days	28 days
Edward Joy	Bridgewater	45 days	66 days
Rhys Kavanagh	Bridgewater	49 days	83 days
Irma Joan Proctor	Bridgewater	37 days	27 days
Todd Stoddart	Bridgewater	35 days	71 days
Krista de Boer	Antigonish	173 days	167 days
Farisa Hossain	Antigonish	14 days	86 days
Lukas Wasserman	Antigonish	14 days	149 days
Andrea Marie Faryniuk	Amherst	32 days	91 days
Nabil Nader	Amherst	30 days	77 days
Colin McWilliams	Amherst	30 days	64 days

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