Surgical Services

Operating rooms are the heart of Surgical Services. Together, our hospitals have 26 operating rooms for specialized procedures including cardiac, vascular, orthopedic, plastic, pediatric, trauma, urology, gynecology, neurosurgery, and ophthalmology.

Foundation donors have been instrumental in equipping our operating rooms with innovative equipment including minimally invasive instruments, advanced imaging tool, and surgical robotics.

These tools improve the effectiveness of procedures, but they also have wide-reaching effects for patients, their families, care teams, and our healthcare system on the whole. In the past decade, many new procedures have been brough to the Island to allow patients from our community to stay close to home and their support systems, rather than going to the mainland. Innovations like the da Vinci surgical robot allow urology patients—who previously would have required up to a week in hospital for recovery—to go home within 24 hours of their procedure. This dramatically frees up bed space, relieving pressure on post-operative nurses, reducing wait-times, and decompressing our hospital system.