Single-Visit Surgery Program

Children's Mercy provides the region’s only Single-Visit Surgery program, providing excellent pediatric surgical care in one convenient visit. Patients are seen at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas for a clinic appointment in the morning and are able to have the procedure they need that same day.

Our Single-Visit Surgery program allows families of children diagnosed with umbilical hernia, inguinal hernia, hydrocele or epigastric hernia to be seen at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas for a clinic appointment in the morning and have the needed procedure performed the same day. This program offers families the convenience of a single visit to the hospital, rather than multiple visits over time.

Conditions treated with single-visit surgery

Patients who qualify for the Single-Visit Surgery program are children without significant co-morbidities and the following conditions:

• Umbilical hernia (patients 3 years and older)

• Inguinal hernia (patients 12 months and older)

• Hydrocele (patients 12 months and older)

• Epigastric hernia