Hernia Repair News & Media
August 17, 2022
June 27, 2022
POCATELLO — June is National Hernia Awareness Month, and two local doctors want community members to know if you’re suffering from a hernia, there is help. Dr. Jorge De Amorim Filho is a general and trauma surgeon as well as director of Robotics and Hernia Center of Excellence at Portneuf […]
June 23, 2022
February 8, 2021
POCATELLO — Portneuf Medical Center has recently achieved accreditation as a Center of Excellence in Hernia Surgery, recognized for providing the highest quality of care and patient safety by the Surgical Review Center. Portneuf is the first in Idaho to achieve this honor. Status as an accredited facility means that […]
July 9, 2018
POCATELLO — Sitting in a wheelchair at Portneuf Medical Center, 43-year-old Justin Firth, his wife, Anny, and his doctors are still stunned that he’s alive. On June 27, Firth was working at Southern Idaho Commodities in Jerome building a fence. A heavy hay bale spear, called a tine, was attached […]