Welcome! We invite you to experience the Forest Health Medical Center difference!

FHMC is different from either a general medical hospital or a large university medical center. We provide you with specialty surgery and personal care by the best specialty surgeons and staff.

Just like the major medical centers we have the latest modern equipment and facilities, but that is not what makes us different. The personal care you will receive is unlike the typical impersonal healthcare offered in most large university medical centers. At FHMC we are committed to caring for you as our family.

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General Surgery

Hernia Repair

A hernia can occur when inner layers of abdominal muscle are weak causing the lining of the abdomen to bulge out into a small sac. Part of the intestine or abdominal tissue may enter the sac. Hernias occur most often in the groin (inguinal hernia), the navel (umbilical hernia), and at the incision site of a previous surgery.