Prisma Health Minimal Access Surgery – Prisma Health Hernia Center

Our fellowship-trained surgeons use techniques of advanced laparoscopic procedures to offer treatments including:

• Hernia repair
• Surgery for reflux disease
• Removal of solid organs, such as:
  • Spleen
  • Adrenal
  • Kidney
  • Gallbladder
  • Appendix

Most general surgeons are trained during their residency to perform basic minimally invasive, laparoscopic and robotic surgical procedures. To gain skills in these techniques for more advanced procedures, surgeons may seek additional training, such as through continuous self-instruction over time or with a dedicated fellowship-training program.

The Prisma Health Hernia Center is as a national and regional referral and teaching center for specialized hernia care and hernia repair surgery offering open, laparoscopic and robotic hernia repair.

Located in Greenville, South Carolina, the Hernia Center is raising the bar in patient safety and successful outcomes, having been a founding participant of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (ACHQC). Through data collection, analysis and collaborative learning, the ACHQC provides best practices, decision support, care pathways and ongoing performance feedback to participants and partners. The ACHQC is a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Qualified Clinical Data Registry and is an authoritative resource for organizations to assess quality metrics and demonstrate a commitment to efficient, value-based patient-centered hernia and abdominal care. For more information on the ACHQC, visit https://www.achqc.org

For more information on the Hernia Center or to refer a patient, call 864-522-2100.

A minimally invasive surgery fellowship follows a standard general surgery residency. It focuses on the techniques of advanced laparoscopic and robotic techniques to approach hernia repair, as well as metabolic and bariatric surgery.  Innovative management and procedures for gastroesphageal reflux and hiatal hernia are also taught.

Currently, the Division of Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery at Prisma Health in the Greenville, South Carolina, region employs eight fellowship-trained surgeons offering a full breadth of surgical care. We offer the only minimally invasive surgery fellowship training program in South Carolina.

Learn more about our minimally invasive surgery fellowship

To make an appointment, give us a call. Please remember:

• Arrive 15 minutes prior to your appointment time to complete a few forms.
• Bring insurance card and photo ID (such as a driver's license).
• Bring all medications you are currently taking.
• If you must cancel your appointment, please notify us 24 hours in advance.

After-hours care

Our practice has a provider on call each night and weekends to assure your care is in the best of hands.

Patients are responsible for understanding insurance coverage benefits. Please verify that we are listed as approved providers prior to scheduling your appointment with us.

• We accept most insurance plans.
• Payment is due at time of service.
• We accept cash, checks, debit and credit cards.