Man travels from Minnesota to be first patient for Georgia Heart Institute’s robotic heart surgery

Submitted photo. Bill and Karen Mayfield, who traveled from Minnesota to Gainesville for Bill’s robotic heart surgery, wait to be discharged from Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) on Feb. 9, 2023 – just two days after Bill’s procedure. Bill was the first patient to ever receive robotic heart surgery at NGMC.
Submitted photo. Bill and Karen Mayfield, who traveled from Minnesota to Gainesville for Bill’s robotic heart surgery, wait to be discharged from Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) on Feb. 9, 2023 – just two days after Bill’s procedure. Bill was the first patient to ever receive robotic heart surgery at NGMC.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. – Heart surgeries that used to require long incisions and months of recovery can now be performed in Gainesville through tiny 8-millimeter incisions – about the diameter of an ink pen…