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General Information
“2 Henson” is a general surgical unit, providing care for general surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, trauma, burn, and ENT patients. We are the only pediatric burn unit in a 5-state region.
Common diagnoses include:
- appendectomy
- shunt malfunction
- pectus repair
- fundoplication
- cholecystectomy
- pyloric stenosis
- VP shunt placement
- trauma
- burn
We are a 26-bed unit, including a burn treatment room and 4 specialty burn patient rooms. All patient rooms are private.
Patients range in age from neonates to age 18. We occasionally treat young adults.
We work with Attending, Fellow, and Resident surgeons and Surgery Team APNs. We also work with medical team physicians when medical patients overflow onto our unit.
