Rappahannock Trauma and Acute Care Surgeons is a unique practice that provides care to all General Surgery patients, especially those who need emergency acute general surgery care. Additionally, the practice cares for injured (trauma) patients. Finally, the practice manages patients in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit in conjunction with their primary surgeons.

General Surgery is a surgical specialty dealing broadly with the entire alimentary tract (esophagus, stomach, intestines, colon, rectum and anus), the endocrine system (adrenal glands, spleen, thyroid and parathyroid glands), the biliary system (liver, pancreas, gallbladder), and a variety of skin ailments and hernias of all types.

The most commonly performed surgical procedures include cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder), appendectomy, hernia repair, and colon resection for infection, blockage or cancer. However, many other types of surgeries are performed as well. In the outpatient clinic, procedures such as proctoscopy, removal of skin lesions and lipomas, and draining of infections and abscesses are performed.. Endoscopy of both the stomach (called upper endoscopy) and colonoscopy are also procedures performed by General Surgeons.

Trauma Surgery is the surgical care of the injured patient. The Commonwealth of Virginia is an organized Trauma System, and Mary Washington Hospital is proud to be a designated Virginia Trauma Center. We have the unique distinction of having 5 exceptionally trained Trauma Surgeons in our practice who are in the hospital 24/7 every day to be immediately available to receive the injured patient and manage them throughout their hospitalization and beyond.
Surgical Critical Care is the specialized Intensive Care expertise to manage the most complex surgical patients. Our team members all have advanced training in Surgical Critical Care as well as many years of experience each and are in the hospital 24/7 every day. There are no other hospitals in our region with this resource.

Rappahannock Trauma and Acute Care Surgeons offer the most advanced treatment options for patients.  We treat cases from routine to medically complex. Our physicians' vast surgical expertise, combined with the resources of Mary Washington Hospital, and our multidisciplinary approach, really distinguish us from other facilities.