Medical Procedures and Surgeries

Ashe Memorial Hospital offers the medical procedures and surgeries you need in a comfortable setting close to where you live. Our hospital is staffed with board-certified surgeons and nurses trained to care for patients before, during and after surgery.

All surgeries are conducted in our state-of-the-art operating suites. Around-the-clock anesthesiology services ensure your are comfortable during and after your surgery.

The Medical/Surgical floor is able to care for 23 patients with 17 private rooms and three semi-private rooms. This unit provides nursing care for patients recovering from surgery, injury or medical illness. We believe in caring for the whole person. Our staff understands that the patient is not the only person affected by their hospitalization.

Ashe Memorial Hospital also has a Monitored Bed Unit (MBU), which is able to care for four patients. The MBU provides care for patients recovering from surgery, injury or critical illness requiring more focused nursing care. The locked unit is equipped with central monitoring, which enables the staff to always be able to monitor the patient even when not present in the room.

Some of the surgical and medical procedures we regularly offer are:

Basic General Surgery Abdominal hysterectomy Vaginal hysterectomy Hernia repairs D&C Breast biopsies and mastectomy Bowel resection Tonsillectomy Appendectomy Tubal ligation Laparoscopic tubal ligation Cholecystectomy Complete endoscopy Procedures Bronchoscopy Colonoscopy Gastroduoendoscopy Sigmoidoscopy Percutaneous organ or tissue access Endoscopy Gastrostomy (feeding tube) placement Pacemakers Port-A-Cath insertion

Chemotherapy Blood transfusions Urology Prostate biopsy and prostatectomy Bladder biopsy Cystoscopy Circumcision Vasectomy Podiatric Surgery Repair of foot fractures Bunionectomy Orthopedic Surgery Compression hip screw placement Casting of fractures Opthalmic Surgery No-stitch cataract surgery Cosmetic reconstructive lid surgery Irrigation of tear ducts Corneal transplant surgery

Privacy

To protect confidentiality, we ask that you please choose one or two family members to receive patient information. Patient information will only be provided to the person(s) who have the designated security code provided to the nursing staff.

Visiting Information

The hospital permits patients to receive visitors at any time. We ask that visitors respect the privacy of all patients, keep voices low and turn cell phones to vibrate. Nurses may ask visitors to leave for short periods of time to tend to patient needs. *Certain visitor restrictions may currently be in place due to COVID-19 protocols.*