Hernia Center

St. John’s Riverside Hospital at Dobbs Ferry is the ideal location for the Hernia Center as it offers complete services including a best-in-class surgical team and leading anesthesiologists who provide quality service during surgery and throughout the recovery period.
The goal of the Hernia Center is total patient comfort while utilizing the latest in minimally invasive surgery techniques to provide patients with a quick recovery.

Hernia Center

St. John’s Riverside Hospital at Dobbs Ferry is the ideal location for the Hernia Center as it offers complete services including a best-in-class surgical team and leading anesthesiologists who provide quality service during surgery and throughout the recovery period.
The goal of the Hernia Center is total patient comfort while utilizing the latest in minimally invasive surgery techniques to provide patients with a quick recovery.

Meet Our Hernia Center Team

Joseph Vazzana, MD

Joseph

Vazzana, MD

Evan Berman, MD

Evan

Berman, MD

The First And Most Comprehensive
Hernia Center In Westchester

Hernia Center

Laparoscopic hernia repair has made major advances in recent years, leading to a smoother, safer recovery, minimizing recurrence, and making treatment possible for hernias previously considered unreparable. Using advanced minimally invasive procedures and da Vinci robotic and laparoscopic technologies, the Hernia Center will repair your hernia through tiny incisions in a procedure that can take as little as 15 minutes. This method of hernia repair is often performed as an outpatient procedure, allowing you to return to your normal activities sooner.

Hernia Center

  • First in Westchester
  • Laparoscopic and Robotic Procedures
  • Minimally Invasive Procedures
  • Little to No Scarring with MIS
  • Shorter Recovery Time

The Hernia Center’s group of surgeons is adept at using the newest hernia repair techniques and materials. The Hernia Center’s team routinely consults on and repairs inguinal and ventral hernias that may develop due to a number of factors, including obesity, aging, and strenuous physical activity, such as heavy lifting in construction work. Certain rare conditions, such as genetic defects involving connective tissue, may also cause abdominal hernias. Hernias, if left untreated, can be painful, compromise lifestyle, and in some cases are dangerous.

The physicians at the Hernia Center have extensive expertise in laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Team members serve as advisers to surgical equipment manufacturers and instruct other doctors in laparoscopic surgery methods. At St. John’s Riverside Hospital’s Hernia Center, you will receive the best possible care, with benefits such as less pain and a faster recovery.

St. John’s Riverside Hospital is the first to introduce the most comprehensive hernia center in Westchester, a pioneer in Minimally Invasive procedures that result in less pain and a faster recovery. With over 11,000 laparoscopic hernia surgeries already performed, it’s clear that The Hernia Center is the best choice for your hernia surgery.

For a referral to St. John’s Riverside Hospital’s Hernia Center or for da Vinci Robotic Hernia surgery, call (914) 964-4DOC (4362).

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