Specialties: Joint Replacement
Lifestyle-restoring joint replacements have become very predictable and reliable surgical procedures. Our highly sought after and nationally recognized Joint Team performs more Joint Replacements than anyone else in NorthEast Florida.
 Gavan P. Duffy, MD |
 R. David Heekin, MD, FACS |
This team concept, which includes a Physician Assistant and a Medical Assistant, emphasizes patient education and communication and provides complete case management through pre-operative evaluation, surgery, hospitalization, rehabilitation and follow-up care. To improve the understanding of our patients throughout the process of this life-changing surgery, we have created in conjunction with St. Vincent’s Medical Center, a Preoperative Joint Education class, which is mandatory for all undergoing Joint Replacement Surgery. All surgeries are performed at St. Vincent’s Orthopedic Center of Excellence, located at their main campus in Riverside. The St. Vincent's Orthopedic Center of Excellence, founded and headed by Medical Director R. David Heekin, MD, FACS, is a comprehensive joint replacement program designed to educate patients and their families about the joint replacement surgery experience at St. Vincent's, streamline the admissions process, insure the total joint replacement surgery itself is performed in a state-of-the-art operating room using the most advanced equipment, implants and techniques in the world, and provide excellent care for each patient after surgery in the hospital by a number of highly-trained nurses, physical therapists, medical specialists and discharge planners who help guide the patients' transition back to their home environment.
Whether bending over to tend a garden or kicking a ball in the park with your loved ones, you depend on the joints in your hips and knees to work properly and painlessly. When routine activities become impossible, surgery is often necessary. You can rely on the exclusive specialization of the HOS Joint Replacement Team to help restore you to an active and pain-free lifestyle with minimal invasion and optimal care.
