{"id":242263,"date":"2026-07-13T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242263\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:22:07","slug":"regional-hospital-expands-access-to-colorectal-general-surgery-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242263\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Hospital expands access to colorectal, general surgery services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Health Physician Network announced William Auriemma, M.D. \u2014 a member of the medical staff at Regional Hospital of Scranton \u2014 joined its provider team and is now accepting new patients in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Auriemma offers advanced robotic-assisted surgery to help improve precision, reduce recovery times and enhance patient outcomes, hospital officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Services include robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, colonoscopy, colon and rectal surgery, bowel resections for colon cancer, diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel disease; hernia surgery, gallbladder surgery, medical and surgical treatment of hemorrhoids, and appendectomy, officials added.<\/p>\n<p>Auriemma practices at Commonwealth Health Physician Network \u2013 Colorectal and General Surgery, 743 Jefferson Ave., Suite 203, Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Most major insurance plans \u2014 including Geisinger Health Plan \u2014 are accepted, hospital officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Health Physician Network announced William Auriemma, M.D. \u2014 a member of the medical staff at Regional Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-242263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}