{"id":94014,"date":"2026-01-22T22:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94014\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:40:28","slug":"six-lvhn-hospitals-achieve-srcs-center-of-excellence-in-hernia-surgery-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94014\/","title":{"rendered":"Six LVHN Hospitals Achieve SRC\u2019s Center of Excellence in Hernia Surgery Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accreditation also reflects a focus on patients. Each hospital provides education before surgery, ensures informed consent and develops treatment plans tailored to individual needs. Care teams track surgical outcomes and analyze them to identify opportunities for improvement and maintain the highest levels of safety and quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prevalence of hernia repairs makes it important for people to know where to go for quality in surgery, anesthesia and postoperative pain relief,\u201d says general surgeon David Grossman, MD, with LVPG General, Bariatric and Trauma Surgery, and Medical Director, Hernia Center of Excellence. \u201cWe conduct thousands of hernia surgeries each year and, over the last 20 years, have mastered robotic-assisted hernia surgery. This accreditation means a lot to us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Valley Institute for Surgical Excellence is a national leader in robotic-assisted surgeries. The health network has recently upgraded all its surgical robots to the latest da Vinci 5, making it one of the first health systems in the U.S. to upgrade its entire fleet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accreditation also reflects a focus on patients. Each hospital provides education before surgery, ensures informed consent and develops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-94014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94014","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=94014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}