Orlando Health launches Complex Hernia Center

Orlando, FL (December 5, 2022) Orlando Health has launched a Complex Hernia Center to connect patients with surgeons who can provide a comprehensive, personalized treatment plan for hernia repair. 

A basic hernia is considered complex when repeated attempts to close the hole in the abdominal wall have failed. Complex hernias have higher rates of complications or recurrences that are often difficult to manage. 

To achieve the best outcome, treatment requires a multi-disciplinary approach using surgeons, as well as other medical specialties, said Bobby Gibbons, MD, Director of Orlando Health Complex Hernia Center.

“Orlando Health Complex Hernia Center is set up as an initiative to improve the quality and outcomes for our hernia patients,” Gibbons said. “We have taken a multicentric approach, to allow our patients to contact our complex hernia surgeons at multiple sites throughout central Florida. This allows us to bring the advantages of our complex multidisciplinary hernia team closer to home.”

Orlando Health surgeons use minimally invasive techniques when possible for repairing a hernia or abdominal wall reconstruction, which allows for a quicker recovery time so patients can return to their normal activities.

Patients can contact the hernia center to make an appointment for consultations at six Central Florida locations: Orlando Health Medical Group Surgery — Downtown Orlando; Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital; Orlando Health — Health Central Hospital; Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital; Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital; Orlando Health Emergency Room and Medical Pavilion-Osceola.

Appointments with a hernia specialist can be made at (321) 841-9678. For more information, visit Complex Hernia Center (orlandohealth.com)

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States. 

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. 

The 3,238-bed system includes 23 hospitals and emergency departments – 18 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, more than 100 adult and pediatric primary care practices, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 60 outpatient facilities that include imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,000 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 25,000 team members and more than 1,200 physicians. 

In FY22, Orlando Health served nearly 142,000 inpatients and 3.9 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided more than $782 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more in FY 21, the most recent period for which this information is available. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.