CARTERSVILLE, Ga.; June 2 /PRNewswire/ — The Georgia Advanced
Surgery Center for Women (GASC) – Georgia‘s first fully accredited
surgical center for performing all major and minor gynecological
surgeries in a true outpatient setting – has
officially opened. The state-of-the-art facility specializes
in laparoscopic and other highly advanced, minimally invasive
surgical techniques that spare women costly hospitalization,
unsightly incisions and lengthy recoveries for hysterectomies,
incontinence procedures and numerous other surgeries. It also
is among only a few facilities in the country qualifying for
“Center of Excellence” designation by the certification division of
the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists (AAGL),
the surgical specialty’s premier standards-setting
organization.
“This facility provides women the highest level of gynecological
treatment available today – plus a proven, convenient and
cost-effective alternative to hospital-based care,” said Hugo Ribot Jr., M.D., founder and medical
director of the GASC. “Even our patients undergoing the most
comprehensive procedures safely return home the same day as
surgery,” he added, “with far faster, less painful recoveries than
traditional surgery provides. Women who have total
hysterectomies here, for example, can resume most activities within
a week – versus six to eight weeks with open abdominal
surgery.”
Ribot said that the outstanding patient safety, results and
satisfaction with the GASC’s special outpatient protocol have been
proven in a major study presented in 2008 to the AAGL and published
that year in The Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery
– as well as by thousands of such surgeries performed over
the pa
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