Same Day Surgery

Inpatient and Outpatient Surgery Close to Home! WCRMC offers surgical services with the convenience of quality surgical care available close to home. We offer simple and advanced surgical procedures to our patients in Sandersville and surrounding counties.

For other questions about your procedure or insurance, please contact:

Phone:
(478) 240-2071

Registration:
(478) 240-2037

Fax:
(478) 240-2376

Key Points

Our team of surgeons and our experienced OR team provide quality inpatient and outpatient surgical services to the residents of Washington County and surrounding areas.

Surgical/Endoscopy Procedures Include:

Endoscopy: Esophagastroduodenoscopy (EGD), colonoscopy with endoscopic submucosal dissection, biopsies, and polypectomies.
General Surgery: Laparoscopic gallbladder, hernia repair, appendectomy, and breast biopsies.
Orthopedic: General orthopedic procedures, including fractures, arthroscopic procedures of the shoulder and knee, endoscopic carpal tunnel release.
Pain Management: Epidural steroid injections, and peripheral nerve stimulators.

Your Surgical Visit

Your provider will schedule your procedure with the surgical department. A nurse from same day surgery will contact you to go over your health history, medications, allergies, and prior surgeries. The day before surgery a nurse will call you with your time to arrive the day of surgery. You will also get a call from registration, prior to your procedure, to go over your insurance and financial obligations.

Please bring your current medication list to the hospital.
Arrange for an adult friend or relative to drive you home after the surgery or procedure. You may not drive yourself home or take public transportation (bus, taxi, Uber) without a responsible adult to accompany you after receiving anesthesia.
Money, credit cards, or other valuables should be left at home.
Please remember to bring your insurance cards and photo ID.
Leave all of your regular medications at home, unless your physician specifically asks you to bring them.
If advised, bring any inhalers and eye drops along with you and give them to your nurse when you arrive.
For your safety, it is recommended that you have a responsible adult staying with you overnight after your surgery.
Two adults may accompany children who are having outpatient surgery. Please do not bring children other than the patient.
Wear loose, comfortable clothing and shoes with flat heels.
WCRMC does not accept responsibility for the loss of or damage to any belongings brought into the hospital. Patients are urged to leave articles at home that they consider to be of personal value. Belongings that are retained at the bedside are the sole responsibility of the patient.
Since eyeglasses, contact lenses, prosthesis, and dentures must be removed before surgery, please remember to bring protective containers. Please bring your own contact solution.
Jewelry and body piercings may increase a patient's risk of surgical burns from the medical equipment used during surgery. All jewelry, including piercings of any type, i.e. any skin piercings, and your wedding band, must be removed.
Shower or bathe and brush your teeth as usual the morning of surgery. Please swish and spit, do not drink.
Please do not wear lotion, powder, deodorant, makeup, or alcohol-based hair product (e.g., gels, hairspray).
Do not smoke after midnight prior to your surgery or procedure.
Breastfeeding mothers should bring their own breast pumps to the hospital.

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